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Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists (arstechnica.com)

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Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists::Customers may "misunderstand the consequences of canceling," cable lobby says.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

This crap is why I haven't had cable in over a decade.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

And the FTC is about 30 years late on considering these regulations.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Biden admin appointed a serious badass to head it, Lina Khan. While at Yale she made waves by vivisecting Amazons buisness practices, basically redefining how America should handle antitrust laws with digital platforms.

Shes basically a rabble rousing anti-monopolist who has blocked a record number of mergers. It's why the FTC is hitting hard at all of these industries at once.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Lina M. Khan (born March 3, 1989) is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2021. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known for her work in antitrust and competition law in the United States after publishing the influential essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". She was nominated by President Joe Biden to the Commission in March 2021, and has served since June 2021 following her confirmation.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

About 20. Belgium has had these laws for around 18 years now because switching mobile provider was shit and it was found to not support competition within the mobile market ( no shit ! ).
At the same time they forced mobile providers to allow other providers to use their network infrastructure so new providers could be made without needing to make their own network infrastructure

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