@jwcph Yeah, a lot of these sorts of things kind of rely on the average user not having the nous, money, or reading time to challenge them, and the company having serious lawyer muscle, and the terms including a binding consent to arbitration so you can't easily sue them anyway.

If you still have an account on academia.edu, you should probably delete it.

I'm not sure how their new terms are legal: they give the site the right to use your data *in any manner*. This is mainly to help them scrape academic work and republish/mangle parts of it through AI without credit: but these terms go way beyond that into your likeness, your voice, even your signature.

Please boost this to academics you know. Further PSA elements in thread:

#academia #science #history #universities