It is the key you click before you can do anything. It is the box you check before you can go anywhere. You know what it is. It’s a “Terms of Service.”

You are online and you sign on to some website that has the information or product you’ve been searching for. But before you are granted access to that portal you must endure the “Terms of Service” claimer/disclaimer.

The “term of service” barrier is the twenty-first century version of the cherubim with flailing; flaming swords set up to guard the Garden of Eden. You are SO not getting anywhere without first “agreeing” to the terms of “service” stipulated by the site you are visiting. Even when all you want to do is access some information or establish an account, there is always the underlying, nagging feeling that by checking on the “…