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The FTC finalizes a “click-to-cancel” rule, so that you can cancel online subscriptions just as easily as you can pay for them (www.ftc.gov)
posted 1 year ago by redman012 1 year ago by redman012 +114 / -0
Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions an...
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a
www.ftc.gov
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– daberoniandcheese 41 points 1 year ago +41 / -0

This seems like an unambiguously good rule change from the FTC. Maybe the government got one right for a change.

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– redman012 [S] 24 points 1 year ago +24 / -0

They also recently banned non-compete agreements.

The main reason the FTC is moving so fast is because Biden put in a 35 year old woman whose main focus as a lawyer was antitrust law to lead the FTC

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– Xachariah 26 points 1 year ago +26 / -0

His handlers must be flabbergasted that his minority female diversity hire is accidentally helping the nation, instead of destroying it like she's supposed to.

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– BlueDrache 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

Ya win some, ya lose some, oy vey.

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– deleted 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0
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– GGinquisitor1108 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I'm torn on it...I'm in a fiercely competitive industry, where even our janitors sign confidential information, non compete, patent, copyright, invention, and trade secret agreements...

But, a good friend of mine could have benefitted greatly by the law passing when starting her new business.

Glad it has the injunction, as ultimately it is less work for me.

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– Eatnignogsnotdogs2 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Janitors have an astonishing amount of access to places. And they hear things, because people talk around them as if they were uneducated chimps with no language comprehension.

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– redman012 [S] 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Ah, I didn’t even know that

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– deleted 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0
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– MargarineMongoose 16 points 1 year ago +16 / -0

This just makes me suspicious. The government doing something right instead of royally fucking it up must mean there's some nefarious motive behind it that we just haven't seen yet.

Acts of good will are not in the government's wheelhouse.

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– AnAmishWithATude 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Rest assured any time the government does anything, it's to entrench their own power. If the thing they do is something right, that's coincidental.

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– BandageBandolier 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Political PR with the populace still has to happen, they'll throw a bone out every now and then if it doesn't cost them much.

Besides, who would volunteer all that sweet lobbying money if they didn't make an example out of someone every now and then?

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– Adamrises 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

There is always the chance that they simply aren't in lockstep and don't all work for the exact same overlords, and fucking one over for petty reasons just happens to benefit us.

I think that's behind the majority of these decisions, major powers fighting behind the scenes and whatever it does "for us" is just collateral.

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– WhitePhoenix 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Do remember, a broken clock is right twice a day.

For every good thing they do, there's probably 6 million more they fuck up.

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– fauxgnaws 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Really? I wouldn't know.

I haven't read the whole ruling, but I'm going to assume 230 pages of administrative law is hiding a lot of BS in there.

It looks like vague, poorly defined, all-encompassing terms so anybody can be in violation just because the FTC decides to go after them. "Any misrepresentation" in any commercial - isn't that all commercials?

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– SoctaticMethod1 21 points 1 year ago +21 / -0

Good, it was probably the only thing I want the US to copy from the EU is their consumer rights. Having this is a good step in that direction.

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– KekistanPM 25 points 1 year ago +25 / -0

If the US copied other countries' strong voter integrity practices (like finger ink dabs after voting), Trump would win at least 40 states.

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– SoctaticMethod1 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0

It's pathetic that basic shit like that is stronger voter integrity than some state's policies.

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– Xachariah 14 points 1 year ago +14 / -0

That's intentional so they can commit fraud.

We can't even get a law that says you have to show your fucking ID, because it's racist or something.

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– JulesVerne 10 points 1 year ago +10 / -0

When you are playing a lottery game, the organizers use a complex secure network to quickly identify where the winning ticket was purchased. Are you trying to use a fraudulent lotto ticket? Fuggedaboutit!

Meanwhile, in U.S. election we will wait days (perhaps weeks) for the officials to calculate the winner.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 10 points 1 year ago +10 / -0

this better apply to internet service providers as well.

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– GamingTheSystem-01 11 points 1 year ago +11 / -0

The life hack is to just tell them you're moving and your new place already has their service installed.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 8 points 1 year ago +8 / -0

My method has always been to assume the identity of a Pokemon called "I am canceling my service" while talking with the ISP.

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– MCMoneyPants 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

What are they going to do to the violators? Gum them to death? FTC got no teeth.

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– realerfunction 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

a) do they have the authority to do this

b) do they have the balls to enforce it

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– AntonioOfVenice 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Lina Khan is the only decent Biden regime appointee.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Bit of a Khan job really.

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– alucard13mmfmj 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

California also did 1 good regulation. Making game publishers and platforms change their wording to let people know they are licensing the game, not buying the game.

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Underrated question. "One click to cancel... and 1000 more regulations that big companies will easily be able to comply with and small startups couldn't hope to."

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– Gizortnik 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Most of these already are present. They are just in a smaller font off to the side.

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– bloodguard 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Comcast out there laughing and flipping the FTC off.

You're still going to have to repeatedly call Jugdish in the retention department and still not be able to cancel.

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