@Radical_EgoCom Needs a slight update The worker is forced through #BindingArbitration and #NonDisclosureAgreement, under an #AtWill position, to accept feudal obligations

They also funneled users to versions of Free File they were ineligible for, a fact that was only revealed after the user spent hours painstaking entering their financial information, whereupon they would be told that they could either start over or pay hundreds of dollars to finish filing with a commercial product.

Intuit also pioneered the use of #BindingArbitration waivers that stripped its victims of the right to sue the company after it defrauded them.

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Almost no one managed to find and use the Freefile offerings they'd hidden in a locked filing cabinet in a disused subbasement behind a sign reading #BewardOfTheLeopard.

This was so obviously crooked that the companies were eventually forced to give it up, but they weren't done - their eye-watering, voluminous terms of service contained buried #BindingArbitration clauses that prohibited the people they ripped off from suing them:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/uber-for-arbitration/#nibbled-to-death-by-ducks

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We don't know much else, because Hayward's employment contract included a non-negotiable #BindingArbitration waiver, which means that he surrendered his right to seek legal redress from his former employer. Instead, his claim will be heard by an #arbitrator - that is, a fake corporate judge who is paid by Facebook to decide if Facebook was wrong.

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