"I Agree": Visualizing terms of service with long scrolls of colored paper

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/07/tldr.html

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it’s an exhibition by Dima Yarovinsky, at the Visualizing Knowledge 2018 conference at Aalto University:

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Thanks, that’s perfect!

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What a wonderful thing. Really makes the point.

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I think it would have been interesting if the artist had included a scroll for the GPL alongside these.

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I am waiting for the day when a US court holds that these click through user agreements are not an enforceable contract.

Note: I am not holding my breath.

Alternatively, I want every CEO of every tech company that uses one of these things to be required to read it verbatim into a court of record (e.g. the Federal District Court of wherever the company headquarters is) and then explain in plain English what they just read.

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They should include an object of known size, for scale. Maybe a banana.

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With a TOS written on the peel… Just look at it.

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That’s been ruled on many times. (TL;DR: = they’re not.)

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I read all of them.
I read the EULA before installing software.
I know I’m weird.

Side note - when one of the kids put some horrible things into her AOL profile to look edgy (violating the ToS) I made her read the 14 pages of the Terms of Service for AOL. Out loud. It took hours.

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My husband reads them too.

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Better than reading a Harlequin Romance I guess.

The most modern iteration of making your child smoke a whole pack of cigs at once?

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