This is a story from months ago, and Disney already announced they dropped the arbitration claim. Not terribly newsworthy two months after it was resolved.
If you look through the terms and conditions of everything you use, it will mention arbitration. Literally every single company has added that clause for US citizens. From streaming services and online subscriptions to smart TV's and even socks. If it's something you already own, they sent you an email awhile back telling you or they added a new "agree" somewhere along the line.
And I mean every company. If you look through the EULA of every single game, software, appliance, subscription, and service you have bought or signed up for (even free services like Discord) there will be an arbitration clause. Some of them will go as far as putting it on the box where it says "if you open this box, you automatically agree to our arbitration clause." Some companies will put it inside the box saying shit like "if you do not agree, please return this product with X amount of days."
We've all been sleeping on this, but if you read through some of those things you hit "agree" on, you'd be surprised at how many more rights you were signing away than you used to be and thought you were. And it's only been getting worse.
Everyone seems to be hung up on the Disney trial thing when the person also agreed to the same arbitration clause when they purchased the DW tickets.
That's the point Disney's lawyers made, alledgedly
They were just eating dinner and hadn’t used the tickets yet (she died first).
Not the point
heh thats some wild stuff. nobody would reasonably expect that signing the arbitration waiver when agreeing to disney+ would apply to any possible legal dispute with the company period.
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