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TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration. (arstechnica.com)

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TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.::TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hasn't stuff like this been repeatedly ruled illegal and unenforceable?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup, but it only matters if you have the means to argue it in court.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The system works*!

* ^If^ ^you're^ ^filthy^ ^rich.^

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

As far as I know only the US would even humor such stupidity. In my country (Australia) they wouldn't even let it go to court since the common law right to legal justice overrides contract law.