Representatives from 194 nations gathered in Geneva Wednesday to sign what diplomats are calling the most significant international agreement since the Paris Climate Accord: a binding treaty that formally acknowledges no human being has ever read a terms of service agreement in full.

The Geneva Convention on Digital Consent, negotiated over eighteen months of intense diplomatic wrangling, establishes as international law the principle that clicking “I Accept” does not constitute meaningful consent to anything, because “the documents in question are clearly designed to be unreadable by any organism with a finite lifespan.”

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called the signing “a triumph of honesty over legal fiction,” noting that the treaty itself was accompanied by a 200-page terms of service agreement that every signatory cheerfully ignored.

The agreement faced opposition from a coalition of technology companies, who argued in a joint letter that their terms of service documents are “clear, accessible, and written at a reasonable eighth-grade reading level” — a claim undermined when journalists discovered the letter itself was 14,000 words long and contained a clause granting the signatory companies perpetual rights to the reader’s “likeness, thoughts, and offspring.”

Legal scholars expect the treaty to face challenges in implementation, particularly from companies whose entire business models rely on the legal fiction that users have consented to having their data sold to entities described only as “trusted third-party partners and their affiliates.”