Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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In reading a fascinating and important discussion of the lack of a termination clause in the new Mastodon.social Terms of Service:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

github.com · GitHub

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Ryan He @ryanhe@mistyreverie.org
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Cory Doctorow 發現 Mastodon.social 最新的服務條款中加入了「放棄訴訟權利的強制仲裁條款」，這讓他感到極度震驚與失望。他強調，這類條款在法律上極不公平，尤其當用戶只是點選同意、而非協商簽署時，形同剝奪其法律保護權利。他舉出過去迪士尼利用此類條款阻止死者家屬提告的實例，說明其潛在危害，甚至可能在用戶受到重大傷害甚至死亡時，也無法讓平台負責。他認為這比內容被用來訓練 AI 還更糟，並表示若此條款不撤回，他將無法再推薦他人使用 Mastodon.social。作為聯邦宇宙中的旗艦節點，Mastodon.social 的做法恐將成為其他實例的範本，進一步侵蝕整個去中心化社群的信任與價值。他也呼籲創辦人 @Gargron 撤回此條款，並表示願意協助聯繫 EFF 的律師團隊，協助草擬對使用者更公平的服務條款。

RE: https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/114706885462760813

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