in addition to the cookie banner vandalism committed by the EU, another problem that needs solving is legal agreements: it is not acceptable to run a society in a way that involves frequently requiring the public to sign documents they obviously haven’t read. I don’t know what the solution is, but I suspect it involves a massive devolution of power away from lawyers, so that they are no longer allowed to simply create agreement documents as long and complex as they want. The new documents must literally be such that it is probable that all users who sign, have read. That probably means just one or two short sentences.
In other words an “agreement” would not be legally valid unless it was short and simple enough for it to be empirically likely that the user has read it, unless we are in a situation in which a user has explicitly selected a service that they are told involves high legal complexity.
In other words an “agreement” would not be legally valid unless it was short and simple enough for it to be empirically likely that the user has read it, unless we are in a situation in which a user has explicitly selected a service that they are told involves high legal complexity.