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Re:‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Cr... by acdha on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:49AM (#17565431)
This is a rather naive position which ignores the information and power disparities. The average person doesn’t have time to review every contract for everything they use, nor is it clear why this should be unlike every other thing you buy simply because it involves software, and there are whole sectors where the only option is not to have e.g. mobile phone service.

It’s especially sad to see you trying to spin blocking someone’s ability to exercise their right to use the legal system as a pro-liberty move. At the least you can be honest and acknowledge that it’s about saving money.

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Re:‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Cr... by CryptoPunk on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:07AM (#17565487)
What you're referring to is an entirely different issue, which is informed consent. If the contract is designed to get the user to quickly glance over it, and agree to unfair terms without understanding it, then yes it's unfair, and any properly functioning court system will void it.

But that's a separate issue from the possibility of including arbitration clauses in a contract, which simply expands the range of possible contracts two consenting parties can enter into.

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Re:‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Cr... by acdha on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:28AM (#17565594)
You don’t expand options by removing them. Being forced to use a company’s appeals process is a distinct reduction in freedom from the status quo.
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Re:‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Cr... by CryptoPunk on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:09PM (#17571711)
No options are being removed. The range of possible contracts that two consenting parties can enter into is larger when arbitration clauses are not illegal.

>>Being forced to use a company’s appeals process

No one is being "forced to use a company's appeals process". You choose to accept a company's offer, and agree to the terms, when you sign a contract with them. Given you're not entitled to use their service, and are free to not use it, you are not being forced into anything.

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