FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

Not surprised that you're being downvoted despite telling the truth, because "politics is off-topic while technology is on-topic" (even though politics is often deeply intertwined with technology).

I've seen people argue for the most heinous shit here without so much as a slap on the wrist. HN isn't above politics, it's just above the _wrong_ politics.

Politics is deeply intertwined with everything, but simplistic summaries like "party lines! remember this!!1" are as much disinformation as anything else. I mean look at some of the comments in this subthread specifically along similar lines. Completely ignorant of (or more likely, willfully ignoring) the fact that there's more to this rule than just "make cancellations easy."

One of the people who voted against it explained why and it has nothing to do with wanting to make cancellations harder. But we can't acknowledge that truth because that goes against the "one side is good, one side is bad" narrative so many here try to push so often and so hard.

I'm not being downvoted, quite the opposite :) HN mods sometimes stick comments towards the bottom of a thread, probably when they feel it will invite flame wars. Not an unfair thing to do, tbh, I don't disagree with the policy. But I still think it's worth making the comment.

Sure, everything is political. But that's meaningless, and it just gets tiring to see the same debates over and over because someone said the thing "remember this when you vote". Like yeah, that's usually how voting works; you vote based on policies like this.

It would be similar to going into an israel-palestine war thread and saying that "remember, if you vote Biden you're voting for a president that is enabling a genocide" or saying that "those bombs were given by Biden's administration " whenever a hospital gets hit in that war. Is it true? Sure. Is it stirring the pot? Absolutely. Do people who vote for Biden already know that and don't really care? Almost certainly.

The exact same applies to comments like this. Like yes, republicans vote for Republican candidates knowing this. It's not like they weren't aware that the party they support leans heavily towards favoring business interests.

There's a lot of people who say stuff like "why bother to vote, both sides are the same." I think it's useful to highlight instances like this when there's a clear difference which impacts people directly.