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misnometoday at 11:47 AM3 repliesview on HN

> It's like McDonald's selling you a burger and telling you how to eat it.

Or Disney telling you they are exempt from killing someone in their theme park restaurants because you signed up to Disney+… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go


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jacquesmtoday at 12:15 PM

Interesting, that case was just withdrawn a few days ago:

https://www.allergicliving.com/2026/03/03/lawsuit-against-di...

"Disney dropped its bid to force arbitration over the streaming service’s clause in August 2024, following a barrage of public backlash."

And not because it was a clearly outrageous thing to do.

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jdifftoday at 11:51 AM

It gets worse with added context: signed up for a free trial of Disney+ on a PS5 many years ago.

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klempnertoday at 12:57 PM

Except it is a stretch to say it is "their theme park restaurant". This story was dramatically oversimplified in the media and Disney's position was nowhere near as unreasonable as everyone understands it to be.

The argument was not "they agreed to a EULA 5 years ago and therefore mandatory arbitration in all disputes with Disney".

This is a privately owned restaurant at a glorified shopping mall within the larger Walt Disney World resort. If you died due to a severe allergic reaction at a normal restaurant in a normal shopping mall in Florida the mall owners would generally not be liable unless there's something else going on.

The theory that Disney is liable here is more than anything based on the *restaurant featuring on their app.* The EULA for *that app* would certainly be relevant to this argument.

Now, the Disney lawyers also tried to argue that the Disney+ EULA would actually (at least plausibly) be relevant. That is more than a bit of a stretch, especially for a free trial from years ago, and I'd be surprised (but IANAL) if such a theory would actually hold up in court. Still, on a spectrum from "person died due to maintenance failure on a Magic Kingdom ride" to "person died from going to a restaurant featured on a Disney+ program", if you're arguing that the Disney+ EULA is relevant, this is a whole lot closer to the latter than the former.

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