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What Disney & Uber Don’t Want You to Know

More Perfect Union | January 2, 2026



When you sign up for Disney+ & Uber, you’re tricked into signing away rights you never knew you had. Buried deep in your terms of service is a “forced arbitration clause.” It takes away your right to bring corporations to court — and lets them get away with harming you.
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  3. @Originalman144

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    @MorePerfectUnion Would love to see a follow up to this regarding jobs and labor agreements. I work in HR in Healthcare and this is happening more and more for job offers and work agreements especially to patient-facing healthcare providers. Companies like Workday are helping companies add in arbitration clauses at the application stage and many people click through without noticing. By the time you get hired you may have already signed multiple arbitration agreement clauses and if you refuse to sign you will not be interviewed, nonetheless hired. This is grossly unethical and it is expanding into roles across the industry like IT and Sales role agreements.

  7. @Vividxful

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    American politicians are owned by American businesses. There is no government for its citizens anymore. Spots have been lobbied, bought out, just like your rights to the highest bidder.

  11. @astlance

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    And yet piracy websites don't make me agree to anything. Don't use Disney+, they want you to pay for the privilege of being allowed to murder you without legal consequence.

  15. @pj_ytmt-123

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    @10:05 This. The hidden kicker in arbitration is that by agreeing to arbitration the customer forfeits the right to trial AND appeal — this is not always stated in "end user agreements" because such laws exist at the jurisdictional level.

    At arbitration the decision is final, under most jurisdictions. If your country happens to have a corrupt court system (or if you reside in another country), you're basically given a pittance to silence you / or they'll outright screw you. 🤖

  16. @joecampo1770

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Corporate greed continues to erode the trust of consumers. Another reason I don’t use ride chair and don’t use many streaming platforms or services. Just an idea food for thought if you were to create a total alias, not tied to your real credit card. Would this be a way to cloak your identityfrom these BS clauses in the terms and conditions

  22. @einsiol

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Laws to protect consumers are much stronger in the EU and most of this would probably never be possible in e.g. Germany. BUT unions are losing ground in the EU, specially in Germany. People are starting to take for granted that laws are created to protect their labour laws, and fewer people take part in consumer protection organisation that actual fight for the customer laws.

    Most people do not read T&C or Privacy agreements they agree too in the EU, and take it for granted that they are protected. But as the very organisation that are fighting for these rights get less and less support, these protections will start to erode, and we are going to be seeing laws start to move into favour of corporations!

  23. @RichardUpstanding

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Things are increasingly stacked in favour of companies and ultimately the super rich that own or run them. Meanwhile we carry on blindly supporting the companies as customers and consumers; usually sucked in by marketing.
    We should return to a less convenience based wholesome lifestyle and stop giving these people our money.

  26. @skuffymagee6325

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Im still taken back that you have to buy a game for $70, download and install it, boot it up. Then tell you this is a piece of useless hardware unless you accept our privacy policy and EULA. I already bought it. I used my internet and data to install it. Then you force me into it? I dont understand any argument that its legal to sell something upfront without disclosing that FIRST

  29. @ishmaeldavila6736

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    This is awful but expected in this county at this point. We pay them so they force us to make them unaccountable for any wrong doing to us. Beyond the moral and inhumane part of this, is fact it allows adding clauses that don’t even pertain to the service we pay for

  30. @locustsun

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    You should NOT be allowed to write in a clause or provision into a contract to dismiss all culpable liability for even items that are outside the scope of the contract.

    A disney plus contract should not cover a disney properties activity, further, a purchase of food at a disney park should not escape liability for accidental death at a ride.

  34. @ricker024

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Wait hang TF on if the nullification of arbitration agreements was removed from the enforcement powers of the CFPB in November 2017. Then WTH were the democrats doing when they attained the majority back in 2020,21 why not re-include those enforcement powers to the CFPB?! TF?!

  35. @pink_wixard

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    this whole time i thought nothing of this story for it is very common for amusement parks to have tou sign waivers in case of injury….i did NOT know they used the TOS of their MEDIA SUBSCRIPTION instead of a waiver the park would've given out for goers to sign before entering (like at cedar point)

  37. @lazyPYRO1

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Ya know, considering corporations need us to buy their products so that they can continue existing, they seem awfully okay with taking our money and killing us off

  38. @WeddingWelder

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    PLEASE CONSIDER THIS STORY!!!!!! It is crucial to investigate the situation at New Jersey Transit, where nearly 87% of workers are paid below the regional standards for the tri-state area. These workers have not seen their contract renewed in over two and a half years. Additionally, 8 out of 10 employees are forced to take on second jobs to cover basic expenses like childcare and education for their children. This story deserves attention to highlight the injustice faced by New Jersey Transit workers.

  39. @lyzardinasylum7603

    January 2, 2026 at 7:47 am

    And even if we would read could understand the 20 pages long agreement clause, it's like you can refuse portions of it like we can still surf a web page but refuses the cookies. If you say no than you have no service and there's very likely no one else offering that service… We're all doomed

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