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Re:Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing ... by WilliamEdward on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:30PM (#22999106)
Yes, obviously, but why would anyone need to consent to disney's own private terms of use on a different website for this? That's the shady part here. There could be anything in that TOS, and this tweet will trick a lot of people into agreeing with something they didn't read and shouldn't have to.
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Re:Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing ... by basch on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:46PM (#22999243)
If Disney were embedding tweets, it would likely already fall under twitters license for redistribution of content (aka hosting.)

However, if Disney plans to copy and paste the tweets into another graphic, they felt they wouldn't have the appropriate license to reuse text copywritten by others, without this odd TOS.

The one thing about this that plays into Disney's favor, is the attention probably reduces someones honest ability to say "I never saw the agreement tweet."

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