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Re:FTC Restores Rigorous Enforcement of Law Banning Unfair M... by pm90 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:21PM (#33556950)
> Commissioners frequently resign before their terms expire, but I am not aware of any instances where a Commissioner, or all five of them, as suggested by the parent comment, have been been "fired" for political reasons. Perhaps an astute HN commenter can cite one.

Precedent didn’t seem to restrain 45.

45 remains the favored candidate to run as the GOP nominee in 2024 Presidential election.

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Re:FTC Restores Rigorous Enforcement of Law Banning Unfair M... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:22AM (#33558125)
"45" appointed two Democratic Commissioners and one Republican when he was in office. One is still serving and voted in favour of withdrawing the 2015 Statement on Section 5. The 2015 Statement came under Obama's watch, not 45's.

"Tech" proponents try to politicise any regulation that threatens their privacy-disrepecting, anticompetitive and deceptive "business" practices but that strategy is doomed to fail. At this point politicians on both sides are annoyed by the "tech" company nonsense, perhaps for different reasons.

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