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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by nickcox on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:09PM (#22734597)
Seriously? What possible reason could there be for limiting this to Californians?
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by joeconway on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:25AM (#22734929)
It's a Californian law mandating that subscriptions that can be started online, must be cancellable online. https://www.androidauthority.com/california-online-subscript...
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by wccrawford on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:17AM (#22737184)
The question wasn't "Why does CA get this?"

The question was "Why doesn't everyone get this, if CA has it?"

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by marcosdumay on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:46AM (#22737466)
Because they want it to be hard.
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by baddox on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:28AM (#22735558)
AMC’s movie ticket subscription service requires waiting for and chatting with an ostensibly human support agent in order to cancel a subscription. If that’s a real loophole in the CA law then they should obviously patch it.
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by blaser-waffle on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:08PM (#22739724)
Run it deliberately until someone complains, and then make a pro forma change. Run that cycle until someone actually passes a law or takes you to court in some fashion.
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by dhosek on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:12PM (#22734613)
Dark patterns. Make it hard to cancel unless legally compelled otherwise.
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by ryanSrich on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:43AM (#22735188)
CCPA

EDIT: I guess it's not CCPA, but a separate law https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

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