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Click Like? You May Have Given Up the Right To Sue

Posted by timothy on from the sue-you-sue-anybody dept.

sandbagger (654585) writes "The New York Times reports that General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, or 'join' it in social media communities. Who'd have imagined that clicking like requires a EULA?"

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  1. Re:The power of EULAs only goes so far by nblender · · Score: 4, Funny

    so would that make you a cereal killer?

  2. Re:My Notice to General Mills by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Private companies are NOT bound, in any possible way, by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights...

    So....they are allowed to quarter troops in my home?

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    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
  3. Re:The power of EULAs only goes so far by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh come on, He's a vampire! Making someone undead is the opposite of killing them, right?
    Mr. Chocula, is it not true that on the night of April 15 you did not, not kill the plaintiff?
    It is true that that is not true!
    But it IS true that you sucked the life force out of them!
    No! It was April 15 and they had been bled dry already!

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    You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
  4. Re:My Notice to General Mills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So....they are allowed to quarter troops in my home?

    Dude ... stop giving them ideas.