It's not unfortunate that most people don't read contracts - it's unfortunate that services create such dense contracts int their defense, knowing full well no one reads them.
I propose the following: a ToS is accompanied by an audio transcription playing at average speaking speed. A person can only use the service after the whole thing plays. We'd quickly see a race for short ToS.
Or maybe require layers to accept ToS. If lawyers wrote them, maybe it would be helpful for a lawyer to read them to consumers! They could even amend it and negotiate changes with the service provider - maybe the terms are not compatible with their client's Terms of Consuming.
These are just joke scenarios, but they show the power imbalance between service and consumer.
I propose the following: a ToS is accompanied by an audio transcription playing at average speaking speed. A person can only use the service after the whole thing plays. We'd quickly see a race for short ToS.
Or maybe require layers to accept ToS. If lawyers wrote them, maybe it would be helpful for a lawyer to read them to consumers! They could even amend it and negotiate changes with the service provider - maybe the terms are not compatible with their client's Terms of Consuming.
These are just joke scenarios, but they show the power imbalance between service and consumer.