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Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

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Re: Bollocks back at you.

"My mind absolutely boggles at the number of people here who apparently don't understand that the wording on a contract actually matters."

Probably because some of us are in the UK (or other jurisdictions), where sometimes, the wording on the contract is utterly irrelevant if it is contradicted by more obvious claims, e.g. marketing (for consumer contracts). For example if the marketing blurb says "unlimited free cake", and the contract says "one free cake per customer per year", then that clause is actually entirely invalid, and the marketing claim will be applied.

Or, for a real judge-rendered example, if you put something on Kickstarter and say everywhere that you are "buying" something, but in the terms you put that you are merely "investing" and "may" get a "reward", then ... it's a contract for sale, not a contract for investment.

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