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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by dguaraglia on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:16PM (#15551422)
Ah, yeah, the old Republican trick of creating rules that clearly benefit giant corporations and pass it on the basis that it'd hurt "small corporations." I'm sorry, but if your tiny community bank fucked up badly enough to be on the receiving end of a class-action, maybe they deserve to be affected. Same for bigger banks.
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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by ifhd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:22PM (#15553256)
> creating rules that clearly benefit

I think you mean removing rules that clearly constrain?

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Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti... by dguaraglia on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:55PM (#15553535)
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other. The end goal is the same: consumer rights get restricted in the name of "poor small businesses". That's been their rallying cry for everything, from tax cuts to trying to write homophobia/misogyny into law (the many "freedom of religion" laws that certain states pass at least once a year at great cost to the tax-payer, only to be struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.)
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