Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice

Re:Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice by waqf on Saturday October 31, 2015 @12:46PM (#10483192)

We didn't solve this type of thing for the adversarial case. If contracts became easily electronically diffable, then companies who didn't want their diffs comprehensible would randomly move sentences around and substitute words in every version of their contracts.

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Re:Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice by anfedorov on Saturday October 31, 2015 @01:12PM (#10483296)

Perhaps one could legislate that legally immaterial changes have to be kept in separate commits than legally material changes, and that those have to be as atomic as is reasonable.

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Re:Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice by MichaelBurge on Saturday October 31, 2015 @07:17PM (#10484642)

I feel like the more difficult problem is getting every company to use some kind of electronic system to store versions of legal documents. Actually diffing two documents in any format is much simpler, even against an adversarial company.

I have to imagine that the companies would at least be paying more for lawyers to shuffle contracts around like that than to amend them slightly.

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