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The Invisible Contract: Rethinking the Principle of Informality on Social Media Platforms

  • Laura Aade(author)
Chapter of: Radical Reforms: Bringing Fairness to Social Media Contracts(pp. 19–32)
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TitleThe Invisible Contract
SubtitleRethinking the Principle of Informality on Social Media Platforms
ContributorLaura Aade(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17176/20230517-140340-0
Landing pagehttps://verfassungsblog.de/en/the-invisible-contract/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
PublisherVerfassungsblog
Published on2025-09-10
Long abstract

Many users do not real­ize that by cre­at­ing a social media account, they are enter­ing into a legal­ly bind­ing agree­ment with the plat­form. It might thus be time to rad­i­cal­ly rethink the prin­ci­ple of con­trac­tu­al infor­mal­i­ty online. Social media con­tracts may regain their impor­tance, and users might become more aware of the con­trac­tu­al impli­ca­tions of click­ing on the ›I Agree‹ button.

Page rangepp. 19–32
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Laura Aade

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University of Luxembourg
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8175-5429

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