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abobla@lemm.ee to Steam@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits

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New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits

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abobla@lemm.ee to Steam@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago
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Noticed this update got pushed just now.

Edit: Seems they’re doing this to prevent costs from arbitration.

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    It means that the key to getting a company to ditch arbitration is for enough people to win individual arbitration cases. There’s arbitration lawyers who hedge their whole careers on arbitration payouts

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      And that i good because…?

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        It means ipso facto, habeas corpus, magico, arbitration, parliamentarian moo deng, lorem ipsum.

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          avada kedavra, taco tuesday, avocado toast

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            This means I have won this debate. Checkmate, Valve.

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