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.

  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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    8 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?

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      8 months ago

      The other route that could work is public civil defenders. It requires the government to properly fund and staff, but having a legal firm sponsored by the state willing and ready to take up cases would mean that the private entities can still get their lawyers but they can’t steam roll over someone that doesn’t make $500k a year.

      Of course, there could be corruption issues. I wouldn’t want the lawyer on my case being drinking buds with the lawyer on the opposing side.

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        8 months ago

        This is a good compromise but frankly I think all lawyers should be government employees assigned by the court with 3rd party independent oversight.

        Its not perfect but it is better than ‘if you are rich you will likely win or just drive your opposition into poverty’.

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      8 months ago

      Can’t you request a new lawyer if you feel yours isn’t representing you well? Or appeal based on that?