Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Forced arbitration is unjust and should be outlawed. It’s only legal in 7 countries: UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, China and India.
That’s right: 4 countries that are essentially US lapdogs, two shitty dictatorships and one that’s on the fast track towards becoming one.
Also, you can totally see how America is so much better and totally different than China. The more I look at both, the less I can tell the difference.
But at least in the United States, there is hope.
FYI it is the other way around. The British Empire spread Common Law around the world. Here is a Wikipedia’s Page (Common Law section) which explains the spread:
…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_national_legal_systems
This is why we occasionally get courts referring to Ancient precedents from England.
lapdogs
The Whitehouse is 12 years overdue for its 200-year reno. Are you angling to get it done for free?
The US has twice as many parties as China. If that ain’t a major difference then I don’t what is /s
Busting out a variation of the quote you think goes here:
The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.
-Noam Chomsky
That was true through the Obama administration.
I don’t know what is going on now.
There’s the Left Butt Cheek Party and the Right Butt Check Party, both from the same ass hence why you get the same shit from both.
Off topic, but since this is Lemmy, I choose to interpret your political assessment as,
US lapdogs? If you look at the list all those countries were influenced or under control by the British Empire.
I mean, that’s true, but correlation v causation and all that. The list of countries “owned or influenced by” the British Empire includes a lot more than just these 7, and yet the forced arbitration club is a small one, so I’m not 100% sure I agree with your police work there, Hal.
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s not really legal in the UK. It’s unenforceable on claims under 5k and for claims over 5k the courts will make a case by case decision if arbitration is appropriate.
herbertsmithfreehills.com/…/click-to-agree-techno…
However, lots of companies still add these bullshit clauses as a way to bully people out of seeing a lawyer.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For sure and, even then, in uk law, you can’t sign away your right to take regular legal action against someone who caused you damage, due to their illegal actions. Something like the one in the article would be, rightly, dismissed as a repugnant clause.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Is it really called a “repugnant clause?”
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lol yeah, what these sorts of things would be dismissed as is literally called a “repugnant clause.”
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It should be illegal for companies with a legal budget over X€ to have illegal clauses on their terms and conditions.