US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel by pinkmuffinere on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:24PM (#44512665)

> they rightly commented that if this was allowed to stand, the FTC and every government agency would just always estimate low in these cases.

I think you missed this — it isn’t some arbitrary reason to rule in an anti-consumer way. There is good reason to do so. Imo we should keep our checks and balances strong, and this is one small action that does that.

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Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel by antonvs on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:34PM (#44512762)

> Imo we should keep our checks and balances strong

I think the tense of this sentence is not quite right. Something more like "Make checks and balances strong again" would work.

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Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel by pinkmuffinere on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:43PM (#44512855)

Haha, ya I agree with that too

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Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel by bagels on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:46PM (#44514061)

There are always reasons on both sides of a case

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Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel by mring33621 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:29PM (#44514431)

so, small questionable wins for normal people would break the system while big, veeeeerrrrry questionable wins for some subset of the elite are OK?

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Re:US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel by AlexCornila on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:58AM (#44528538)

sure bud .. wake the fck up

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