🐀 Subscription to cartoons deprived the right to a trial over wife's death. Black mirror in reality.

So you go to a Disney restaurant with your family. Your wife has an allergy, you ask the waiter 10 times if everything is safe? They swear it is.
Dinner. Anaphylactic shock.
And bam. Death.

Now you go to court to punish those responsible. And the corporation's lawyers pull out a piece of paper and say:
Stop. You cannot sue. Remember, 4 years ago you took a free trial subscription to Disney+ for $0? The terms stated that all disputes are resolved quietly, in private arbitration. Even if we killed your relative.


🥴 Sounds like utter nonsense. That's exactly what happened in the case Piccolo v. Disney in 2024. The corporation seriously tried to use a checkbox in an online service to fend off a wrongful death lawsuit.

Why does this concern you?
It so happens that we all check these boxes without thinking. In Uber, Yandex.Taxi, marketplaces, banking apps. The average user signs 128,000 words of legal text per year; to read it all yourself, you need 250 hours of pure time.