I just got a text from my cell provider stating that if I continued my service with them that as of 05/05/2021 I would be agreeing to their new terms of service. I thought “no big deal“ as companies do change their terms from time to time but then I read further and discovered that one of the changes was that as a customer I was agreeing to forfeit my rights to ask for a jury trial and / or be a part of a class action law suit if a dispute arose between this major communications / entertainment corporation and myself. So if this corporation decides to take my money and provide poor service, sell my personal data or otherwise cause my personal data to be made available to another third party without my permission my only recourse would be as the corporation states “individual arbitration“. This makes me wonder what is hidden in all of the multitude of “service agreements“ that we as consumers accept on a daily basis. It is getting so that all facets of our lives are being controlled by gigantic multi-national corporations who continue to monopolize the industries that the average person needs to function with little recourse provided to we the bottom 99%. One would hope the government would do something to breakup these monopolies as was done at the end of the last gilded age over 100 years ago but I am not feeling it in this new gilded age.