According to the sources that Cory himself cited, Wells Fargo’s claim is that the indisputably real arbitration agreements they made with their customers apply to disagreements over any accounts Wells Fargo has opened in their name, fraudulently or otherwise.
I make no assertions about the legal validity of that claim, or of arbitration agreements in general; I’m not qualified to do so (although as a layman, I feel that both are absurd and abusive). No, I’m only pointing out, as a statement of fact, that this is actually the claim Wells Fargo is actually making, as reported by the NYT piece that Cory himself cites as his only source for this story.
And this is the claim that Wells Fargo has apparently been successful at convincing some number of judges about; not the claim that “forged arbitration agreements are legally enforceable”, which both Cory and you keep repeating despite not having presented any evidence that Fargo ever actually made that claim, and actually having presented media reports which say that they didn’t.
I have said several times in this topic that Wells Fargo absolutely deserves to be deplored for the fraudulently opened accounts. I certainly will never do business with them, or recommend them to others. That’s not in question.
The question is whether it’s okay for us here to knowingly invent and publish falsehoods about people and companies if we don’t like them, in the hope of invoking further outrage against those people and companies. Personally, I say that knowingly publishing falsehoods in order to punish the people we don’t like is not okay. That’s GamerGate. That’s Breitbart. That shouldn’t be us. That’s all that I’m stating, and I’d been politely asking Cory to chime in to reassure us that that wasn’t his intention. (But he doesn’t seem to be interested in doing so, so I’ve stopped)
By contrast, you’re here to tell me that I’m “driving trollies”, and that I have “evil ends”, and that I’m subject to “compulsions”, even though you can’t be bothered to even go back and read what I’ve written. So I feel that any further discussion with you would likely be wasting both your time and mine, and I shall bow out of this exchange.
But please do feel free to add a final reply to this if you feel a need to ‘win’ this little argument of ours by getting the last word. Perhaps this time you can call me a servant of Satan, or impugn my fashion sense. That always goes over well.
