Comment by salawat

And that's the problem. Contracts weren't meant to cover everything. We've taken a legal instrument, and based the entire bloody economy around it without bloody stopping to realize that, oh geez maybe having people click through a billion contracts they don't bloody read might cause deleterious effects in the civic macrocosm. The fact you're sitting here telling me it's a non starter just cements my point. The tech industry is predicated on predatory legalism, and click wrapped contracting. In point of fact, if you took the digital product away and tried to click wrapped literally anything else, the consumer would laugh at you. Only with digital products, whose terms can be changed at the will of the hosting company's legal department unilaterally, with no notice, and no recourse, other than termination of service is the root of the bloody problem. And we have an entire generation of business people who have been educated to think this behavior that results in massive exposure of clients personal data to outside firms and legal processes are 100% A-OK. If you think it'd be impossible to do business any other way, you are unironically one of the benefactors of the problen created and enabled by tech.