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Under current laws, wouldn't the way the Terms of Service are presented be considered a contract signed under duress? I mean, they are saying that if you don't sign the contract, they'll kill you, which is kind of the textbook definition of duress.


They could counter you are already dead and they are offering you the possibility of "post-mortem health care".


That doesn't remove the duress. :)

However, before we get to a point where people are being uploaded into a system, we have a lot of legal president to set. The legal rights of the bits that are copied from your consciousness, for one.


To be boringly practical: The contract would almost certainly be determined when you first signed up for the service (i.e., when you were still alive).


They could argue you are not strictly human, nor a citizen, I'm sure.




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