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kube-systemlast Thursday at 2:53 PM0 repliesview on HN

>How can there be a meeting of minds when Vizio's mind disagrees with the contract.

Because "modern contract doctrine requires only objective manifestations of assent"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/meeting_of_the_minds

Courts started doing this because people were playing dumb in court to get out of contracts: "oh I didn't know I was agreeing to that"

So instead, courts started calling bullshit on it, and today judge things as: "look, you went along with the transaction as if you agreed to it and a reasonable person in your situation should have known you were agreeing to it, and that's good enough"