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US agency adopts rule to make it easier for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is awesome, we need more rules like this, and Khan is absolutely nailing it. But I'm worried it won't stick. I think companies have taken our absentmindedness and laziness for granted, and have made tons of money because of it. I don't think they'll give that up without a fight, but hopefully they lose. Unless the Supreme Court gets involved, and then we can all but guarantee they'd rule against these consumer protections.

“Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. “The FTC’s rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want.”

It's such a basic and obvious consumer protection.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Coming soon to a Supreme Court near you:

"It is this Court's opinion that this rule infringes on businesses' First Amendment right to free speech."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that they've thrown out the Chevron Doctrine they can just say "There isn't an explicit law that says you can do that so you can't."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yup. "Bumblefucks DVD emporium" will oddly have 100k to splash out on lawyers to sue in that one Texas federal court with a Trump judge that refuses to abide by random cases being distributed, and this will be on hold for the whole country. The supreme courts shadow docjet will then affirm it with no comment, and then we wait for it to reach them, where they will release an opinion on the last day saying it's illegal, and also so is the FTC, and also senators are kings like presidents.