NYT's new TOS binds you to forced arbitration; opt out within 30 days

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• tearsintherain@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forced Arbitration Skyrockets. Need to ban this shit.

  Some irony as NYT did a big investigation back in 2015: [In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’(nytimes.com/…/in-arbitration-a-privatization-of-t…)

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  • Grunt4019@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    • The number of forced arbitration cases skyrocketed 467% in 2022.

    • Win rates for consumers and employees plummeted to just 0.7%. 

    • Mass arbitrations now make up the vast majority of all forced arbitration cases.

    Depressing all around.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  arbitrating about what? What are we arbitrating about?

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    probably a data breach they’ll announce in a few days, with the timing of the two being a total coincidence

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    • theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      God these corporations make me want to fucking this comment was removed by Lemmy.

      What a waste of evolution. We could have unironically had post-scarcity today if half of humanity wasn’t fucking evil.

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    • tristan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      31 days*

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whatever civil/constitutional/etc right they are desperately trying to/going to deny you.

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  • Lath@kbin.earth ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I presume them using your data in whichever way they like, given where this was posted.

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• misanthropy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forced arbitration should be illegal full stop

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• hatedbad@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this kinda shit makes me understand the sovcit stuff a little more, “just send an email with this magic subject text and your rights are secured!”

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  • boxofnails@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all tragic. It’s not the ‘magic words’ that absolve the crimes, but the names of whoever speaking and their wallets.

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• errer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone please explain why I should or shouldn’t do this

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  • HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    consumerreports.org/…/forced-arbitration-clause-f…

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  • Player2@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Companies only really have one reason to prevent their customers from taking them to court: they intend to break the law or otherwise harm their customers.

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• Melody@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This kind of nonsense is why I bypass the NYT’s paywall, and any other paywall. If I wanted to ever subscribe; this ensures that I will want to subscribe far less intensely than I would have ever naturally done. Probably this ensures the urge to subscribe will be non-existant; and my urge to ‘become a Giant Tool and just crawl their site daily with my paywall bypass’ is increasing at a pace that might alarm some people.

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• bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does this apply if you dont subscribe? How would they know I didn’t just start using it?

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  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you don’t subscribe it’s pretty unlikely that you’re going to have legal grounds to sue over anything to begin with

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    • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t have to be a registered client of a corporation to be harmed by the corporation.

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