Dr. Boli has mentioned before how these agreements, which run to thousands of words, are not agreements at all. They are conditions imposed at will upon people who have no real option of refusing them, which is to say they are articles of enslavement.
But you don’t have to agree, right? Some online services are necessary, but Snapchat filters for your phone camera are not. You can simply back out.
But the back button is disabled. It does nothing.
All right, you can force-stop the app.
But when you start it again, it’s on the same screen, with the “Continue” button waiting to be pressed.
Well, then, you can uninstall the app.
No, you can’t, because it’s the phone’s default camera app, and it can’t be uninstalled.
You have two choices: you destroy the phone now, or you have agreed to the Terms and Conditions. To put it another way, since destroying the phone is not a realistic choice for most people, by the time you read the notice telling you that you agree, you have already “agreed.”
It may be possible to refine these “agreements” to be even more unambiguously slavery. But an “agreement” where the possibility of refusing agreement has been deliberately removed for every user who does not have access to a time machine will be hard to improve on.