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Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Newstart to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is ridiculous. An emoji is not a signature, and a text message is not a contract. WTF...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on your country contracts are also created just by spoken agreements, so sure any form in which intent is clear to both parties might count

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And writings don't need to be physical writings either. An email signature could suffice in some circumstances.

[–] FormlessMartian 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m getting “old man yells at cloud” vibes

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

That explains my sore back!