Why do we have to abide by rules while browsing the web? Why do businesses fear litigation so much, they hire lawyers to write and maintain a huge document nobody can ever read or understand?
This is failure from governments that can't set basic rules for human interaction.
All this
Because "the web" (ie the internet) isn't a natural object. Its composed of stuff owned by companies and people, and they have the right to say how you use their stuff when you interact with it.
Are you serious?
I wouldn't expect the same terms to apply for my public twitter posts as my paid fastmail account.
I'm not in favour of abusive ToS, but your argument isn't the best one that can be made against it.
What does that even mean? Laws trump Terms of service/agreements and contracts of any kind. Do they not?
> Laws trump Terms of service/agreements and contracts of any kind.
Web is not regulated by the government.
All companies have to do is abide the local rules set by regulations, if such exist. And some very much do. Maybe not in your jurisdiction?
I think you two have things backwards
The point being that there are not enough regulations.
One feature that I wish exist is the option to completely erase your account on a particular website along with the data they have collected from you (there can a waiting time of few months before they erase it from their servers). This feature can only be bought out by government regulation because most websites don't have the incentive.