Thread · 3 tweets · 13 Oct 2022

I understand where you're coming from with this, but you're having "knowingly" do a *lot* of work there! Acceptance of ToS and PP are legal fictions through and through, building from them to establish that there is an exchange is to build on a fiction.

If I put up a small-font sign at every entrance into Princeton indicating that there are many pickpockets on Palmer Square, and you get your pocket picked while getting an ice cream there, were you party to an exchange?

It's cliché to point out that people don't read let alone understand privacy policies, but a fascinating study would be to look into how much the lawyers who write them understand what they're saying. I guarantee that in many cases they don't, not meaningfully.