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Isn’t it about time we have a review of the legality of tos agreements? It seems anyone can put anything into this thing nobody reads and just point their finger at it “see, says here you agree you’re an idiot”.

There should be some limits as to what you can and cannot put into TOS.

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Ah, but you forget the age old problem of government regulation:

Regulatory capture

I guarantee if you got such a law passed, Google, Apple, and Microsoft will be the ones actually writing the law, and running whatever organization is supposed to enforce it.

And I guarantee they will make it extremely hard to comply with simply to drive up costs to competitors.

It won't actually do anything useful, or there will be one good aspect left in as a fig leaf. It will, effectively, be a very expensive to comply with pile of empty words.

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