• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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    I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I’ll never sign up with a gym again…Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.

    The “click-to-cancel” rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.

    For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.

    It’s been a law in Germany for three years now:

    German Online Cancel Button Law

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    Well it’s good to know that the courts are willing to tell the executive they can’t do things. Shame about it only applying when the feds are helping ordinary people

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    This is the FTC’s rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.

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      The problem with subscription services is that it’s fairly easy to argue it’s interstate commerce that states don’t have jurisdiction over.

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        California has the law and visa is based in california. We can push them to make it so that if any site accepts visa they have to follow california’s lawn click to cancel. It’ll be a nice change from them trying to ban the anime, and do something useful.

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    I’d expect the Spanish inquisition long before I expect the government to do something good for the people.

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    We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin’ in cyberpunk dystopias… because you’re in one.

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    the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule

    The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.

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      The current ftc doing something constructive?

      Most likely situation is that this will not happen now, or years from now

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      industry associations and individual businesses […] argued the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule. The judge panel has agreed with them.

      Three judges — two appointed by President Trump, one by President George H. W. Bush — found that the FTC’s rulemaking process was flawed and did not include early analysis of the rule’s possible economic effects. [1]

      “the law”

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      This was their last chance to do anything before they’re gutted. Guess we deal with the wave of bullshit now.

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    Just for that I’m going to put things in my Amazon and eBay accounts and just keep swapping stuff without buying anything for weeks at a time.