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

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1737 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | source
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coldpie ◴[16 Oct 24 14:19 UTC] No.41859298[source]▶
Passed 3-2 along party lines. Remember this when you're going to vote. Elections matter.
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NotPractical ◴[16 Oct 24 15:39 UTC] No.41860362[source]▶
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).
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1. pc86 ◴[16 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41860667[source]▶
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.