<story><title>Terms of Service; Didn’t Read</title><url>https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>II2II</author><text>On the first day of a university course, several hundred students asked to line up and sign a two page agreement in order to access computing resources necessary for the course.  When my turn came, I asked where I could read it without holding up the entire line.  They were shocked that anyone would ask such a question, though they provided me a space to read over the document.&lt;p&gt;If blindly signing a contract one of the first things that computer science students encounter, I&amp;#x27;m not surprised that they simply put up those ToS without the expectation that they will be read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joekrill</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s absolutely astounding to me how many folks blindly sign legal documents. Especially employment related. Whenever I&amp;#x27;ve pushed back on an employment contract, NDA, or similar it&amp;#x27;s always met with sudden confusion - as though this has never happened before. In fairness, it&amp;#x27;s almost never met with negatively. But it shows that no one else has ever bothered to question it. And when I talk to colleagues I definitely get the sense that no one ever really reads these things or questions them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Terms of Service; Didn’t Read</title><url>https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>II2II</author><text>On the first day of a university course, several hundred students asked to line up and sign a two page agreement in order to access computing resources necessary for the course.  When my turn came, I asked where I could read it without holding up the entire line.  They were shocked that anyone would ask such a question, though they provided me a space to read over the document.&lt;p&gt;If blindly signing a contract one of the first things that computer science students encounter, I&amp;#x27;m not surprised that they simply put up those ToS without the expectation that they will be read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexfromapex</author><text>I had a quiz in middle school where the end of the directions said to ignore everything and put down your pencil. Really wish all schools taught this.</text></comment>