Reply To: Halocha Question – Violating a Website's Terms of Service

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DaasYochid-

Thank you for pointing out that during the registration process there is no “I agree to abide by the rules” button, checkbox or the like required when getting a SN for this site.

I had assumed there was, and I stand corrected.

There is no explicit “al tnai” to abide by the rules upon registration and therefore (at least as far as I can see), there is no sheker when signing up with the intention of violating the site’s rules.

yytz–

I don’t think it’s a problem, because there’s no real expectation that people read thru hundreds of lines containing dense legalities. It’s simply verbiage the company’s legal department came up with to protect themselves.

I recently saw a news article about a company deliberately burying and hiding onerous changes to their TOS within the legal mumbo-jumbo. IMO this is actually somewhat dishonest on the companies’ part. (I’m not 100% positive I correctly remember which company it was, so I won’t name it, but I believe it was a cell phone service provider.)