Yeah, Still Evil

Remember when Disney said that a years old agreement for a trial membership in Disney+?

Well now Uber is forcing a couple to arbitration because their daughter clicked on a popup for Uber eats.

It turns out that the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation will be be the SECOND group of mindless jerks up against the wall when the revolution comes:

A New Jersey couple seriously injured when their Uber driver ran a red light and collided with another car has lost a bid to take legal action against the company in court.

John McGinty and Georgia McGinty argue Uber is enforcing an arbitration agreement after their daughter clicked “agree” when presented with updated terms and conditions while ordering food via her mom’s Uber Eats account.

Uber says that Georgia McGinty’s account on its app received a “full-screen pop-up” on several occasions, which required the user to accept updated terms of use before accessing its service.

It comes amid heightened scrutiny around the terms of leading tech platforms. This summer Disney faced a backlash after its attorneys initially argued the terms and conditions a widower agreed to on the Disney+ streaming service protected the company from a wrongful death lawsuit he brought over his wife’s death after eating at a Disney World restaurant.

Last month, a New Jersey court of appeals sided with Uber against the McGintys, allowing the ride-hailing and delivery company to enforce an arbitration agreement requiring the couple to arbitrate their personal injury claims, rather than litigating them in court.

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The couple added that they were “horrified” that a large corporation like Uber could “avoid being sued in a court of law by injured consumers because of contractual language buried in a dozen-page-long user agreement concerning services unrelated to the one that caused the consumers’ injuries.”

To quote Elvis Costello, " I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused." 

I am not all surprised by this, but I am still disgusted.

Congress needs to repeal the Federal Arbitration Act.