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TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration. (arstechnica.com)

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TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.::TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.

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[–] Khanzarate 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A contract related to Disney in Florida wanted a forever, couldn't legally do it, but you could do a timeframe from a person, so they picked the last British monarch after a certain birth cutoff, essentially giving them something like 300 years (very rough estimate don't remember well enough) in a contract that wasn't intended to really do more than 100.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Its crazy they could do that in america

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So it's still possible. Didn't you have a big kerfuffle in 1775 about basing your legal system on a British monarch