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Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Did your Roku TV decide to strong arm you into giving up your rights or lose your FULLY FUNCTIONING WORKING TV? Because mine did.

It doesn't matter if you only use it as a dumb panel for an Apple TV, Fire stick, or just to play your gaming console. You either agree or get bent.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This is what I like to call "bullying". I don't think anyone should be able to hire private lawyers. All lawyers, no matter how rich you are or if you're a corporation, should be public and randomly assigned dictated by a random number generator and a publicly viewable algorithm IMO.

The US has the right to a fair and speedy trial in its constitution. Current litigation is niether.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The only argument i have gotten against this is "But what if I get a shitty lawyer? I should be able to pay what I want for the quality of lawyer I desire."

It doesn't seem like a strong argument to me but to those who use it as a reply it seems rock solid?