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Re:Canadian judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract a... by TheCoelacanth on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:06PM (#36619186)
A key detail here is that they had competed numerous similar transactions in same way.

This never would have been considered a contract in a normal scenario.

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Re:Canadian judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract a... by shkkmo on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:16PM (#36619371)
In a similar way in that text messages were used, but not the "same" because the thumbs up emoji had not been used in the past to express agreement.
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