Jako301 ,

Incomprehensible/overcomplicated ToS already get declared as void every now and then by a competent court, so they aren't really enforceable.

They should be forced to have a simplified part and a jurist part.

This will never work. Most of the time they are this complicated to cover any potential loopholes from every angle and point of view.

Offering a simplified version will just lead to some idiot exploiting a loophole that doesn't exist in the juristic version and once that case goes to court we have the issue of what version counts for the average consumer.

If we preface this by saying only the juristic one is legally binding and you have to read it either way, then the simplified one lost its purpose.

Who is the simplified version even meant for? Pretty much no one reads ToS, the only ones doing so will have some kind of business relations. Be it the ToS of their Software or their supplier, they will need the juristic version either way.

Besides all that, most Software ToS are at least comprehensible if you take a few seconds to think about what you read.

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