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Did your Roku TV decide to strong arm you into giving up your rights or lose your FULLY FUNCTIONING WORKING TV? Because mine did.

It doesn't matter if you only use it as a dumb panel for an Apple TV, Fire stick, or just to play your gaming console. You either agree or get bent.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What even the point of making laws and regulations if corporate can just force you to waive all your rights?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

That's one big difference between the US and the EU law. In the EU, they can't.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats the point of laws when they just get in the way of corporate interests and exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. Someone please think of the corporations

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will someone please think of the CEO's bonus?? (...Nah, they can get bent.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the poor shareholders as well. I don't know what we'd do without them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

and by the time the court throws it out the TV I paid for has been disabled for months and I'm out a ton of money and time. A lot of people will just agree because defending your rights in this country is very expensive and cumbersome. They're counting on this idea.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

There's a nonzero chance the SCOTUS would.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's why unalienable rights are so important.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the laws and regulations have been influenced by lobbying by large corporations to suit them best.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I still can't comprehend why American just accepting that "lobbyists" are a normal thing.

Isn't that literally bribery in broad daylight to influence laws making decisions? And the fact that a corporate can "sponsor" politicians. You're supposed to making those laws to keep the corporate in line, not taking their handout.

Are there any other countries with the same "lobbying" practice?