Do I Really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service?

Seemingly consent-capable social media users cannot fully appreciate the stakes of the gambles that we take in social media. The risks that I focus on include negatively transformative experiences stemming from negativity bias, to which most humans are prone, and which results in our remembering insults and hostility far more easily than compliments or kindness. Our abilities to satisfy risk-related consent standards require self-monitoring of the impact of negative experiences, which are undermined by our own online habituation and our desires to return to ludic loops of variable reward. I conclude that we can’t even implicitly consent, let alone click the consent checkbox for meaningfully explicit consent.

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Kathryn Norlock
Trent University
Philosophy

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Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
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