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Didn't Disney try this recently, arguing that signing up for Disney plus contained some tiny stipulation that meant the widower of a woman with allergies who died at their restaurant couldn't sue? Iirc they took it back after the realized it was a PR disaster.
Apparently Uber didn't learn anything from that.
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You kinda have no choice. The civil courts system in the US is so broken that you need arbitration to function as a large country. The answer is that we need civil court reform (esp decreasing punitive damages and punishing frivolous lawsuits), but that won't happen because the electorate is unable to comprehend fairness and responsibility. So the courts allow mockeries of justice like forced arbitration as a necessity.
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Disney is protective of their brand. Uber knows you'll say "that won't happen to me" and keep consuming
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What the frick is going on in America?
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he makes some good points butt he overstates them and his examples are extreme hyperbole. The case he is talking about is abput people who were hirt when their uber crashed not being able to sue Uber directly in court because it had a "forced" arbitration agreement, where you agree that if youre suing them for sometuing having to do with the app that you agree to a certain jurisidction and special court for the ruling to be rendered. Arbitration isnt magically rigged against plaintiffs and they run by judges and theres still certain ethics, just no appeal and its cheaper. Also not all clauses in a contract are enforceable against all suers in all situations. The lawyers who draw these contracts do so to maximize liability mitigstion for their client and are often overbroad. No "release of liability" can prevent you from being sued for doing something illegal, or protect you from being sued when you personally were willfully or wontonly negligent no matter what the contract says. Hes pointing ro clauses in the contraft that havemt been successfully enforced at the end of the video. And in the begining he talks about the disney case which was dropped likely due the unenfoecebility of that clause in the contrsct and not just the bad press.
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of frick off lmao forced arbitration wouldn't be a thing if there were any semblance of actual fairness to it, it's 100% biased in favor of the company and they are NOT actual courts of law
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Courts wouldnt be a thing if there were any semblance of actual fairness to it, its 100% biased in favor of the government and they are NOT actual courts of Common Magna Carta Admiralty Law
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why would companies stipulate forced arbitration if it did not benefit them?
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first of all "forced arbitration" is a dumb phrase when both parties agreed to it c9ntrsftually, two them not being courts doesnt make them not regulated machinations of law governed by lawyers just like courts are. Theyre just cheaper and more limited and...oh yeah you have to agree to it int he first place to be bound by them.
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If that agreement is a requirement for something else it's reasonable to call it "forced". two most of that "regulation" comes from the fact that the parties get to agree on which arbitration to use beforehand, which, see one.
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every agreement requires comcessions/actions of each party, by your logic their payment for the service is "forced" and the companies are comitting robbery
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By using this vending machine, you agree to get your peepee amputated.
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great example of a contractual clause that would be unenforceable
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I'm totally sure you read every EULA you've ever signed in full lmao.
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that doesnt invalidate, contradict, or even counter anything that Ive said. I dont see how you could even suggest that makes me a hippocryt based on that.
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So you're admitting that you don't read all of every EULA? Case closed.
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Nah it's cause civil courts are unfairly biased to the plaintiff. Juries are r-slurred.
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Will the arbitration company favor its customer, Uber, or the party Uber pays the arbitration company to fend off? This is so tough
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Ma'am we've been over this before. You need to stop.
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TechChads rule over the poors
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A complete failure of government
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When Americans buy a pillow they agree that the company is legally allowed to give them malware
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youre so fricking dumb
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good luck enforcing that, dumb frick. If you hypothetically gave anyone malware intentionally youd be guilty of crimes and those people would still be able to sue you. Weve discussed this before and if you dont get it at this point then its obbious that youre a troll and a dumb one at that
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Addendum: you also agree not to be a side voting b-word
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r-slurs agree to shit they didn't even read smh
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Shit like this is probably why the holocaust happened.
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Ah, the Mickey defence
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@BigPumpkinHunter late delivery, but just cuz its uber
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LOL
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Motherlover, I had a .edu email before .com TLDs existed. All y'all AOLn00bs think you're fresh; you're just trite.
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