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Re:Roku's New TOS Makes It Nearly Impossible to Sue the Company by rolph on Sunday March 10, 2024 @09:47PM (#39664129)
using tos to neutralize consumer protection laws definitely sounds like an unsustainable practice.

avoid clicking and set up a class action, the rquirement to agree to new tos is damaging, and loss of access to property unless accepting a damaging tos is also damaging.

this also undermines the rule of law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_protection_law

Re:Roku's New TOS Makes It Nearly Impossible to Sue the Company by Buttons840 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:59PM (#39664547)
ToS should be considered in antitrust as well. In a world where antitrust was enforced we'd hear arguments like "this is a 100 billion dollar industry, but there are zero companies that allow customers to keep their <freedom / right to sue / right to keep data private / etc>".

When am entire industry adopts the same ToS and customers are unhappy about it, clearly there is a lacking of healthy competition.