#legallanguage

Terms of service (and privacy policies) are written by lawyers in legal language for legal reasons, and they can be confusing and frustrating. Most people don't read them, and if they do, don't really understand what they've agreed to. Updates to the walls of text that are most terms of service hide any important changes. Can it be informed consent if the information is impenetrable? Somebody should make a policy that 1) terms of service should be readable and understandable at an 8th grade reading level, 2) changes to terms of service should be clearly marked and easy to decipher, 3) terms of service should have an accurate summary if longer than 1,000 words (5 minutes at 200wpm reading speed).