Karl Bode: it's cool to temporarily have regulators that actually care about this sort of thing, sometimes

it's cool to temporarily have regulators that actually care about this sort of thing, sometimes

US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Adobe, alleging that the company deceives consumers.

It's so nice to see you say something positive about a federal agency.

this FTC under Lina Khan has been as close as we've gotten to any sort of serious consumer protection enforcement in a long while I really wish they'd prioritized the Gigi Sohn appointment to the FCC in the same way, but I realize people don't care about telecom media policy anymore

amen

Adobe's blatantly monopolistic practices put the software company I started and ran at the time out of business, but the Obama administration, often advised by Google's CEO, was very monopoly-friendly. Grrrr.

Lord I hope they follow through.

I know some folks are not always thrilled with the execution, but the FTC has done quite a lot for an agency that's been intentionally understaffed, underfunded, and boxed in by corrupt court rulings over the better part of several generations

Now I hope they go after all these AI companies for the myriad crimes they are committing in broad daylight.

Tesla/Musk presents an ocean of "unfair and deceptive" practices under the FTC Act if they were at all interested

That too.

Isn't this borderline criminal?

Hence the FTC stepping in.

i don't know why they're not being louder about this type of thing because junk fees have been a particular focus of this administration (which really should be more focused on fixing the post office and immigration law but I digress) and they've made a lot of headway on them

(oh, and also they should be more focused on not supplying a genocide BUT I DIGRESS FURTHER)

Just wait for Trump 47 to go back to helping the industries hunt or haunt their customers. And the SCt will soon gut admin agencies with Loper Bright/Rrlentless.

Suddenly the case is thrown out, and a politician got a big sum of money from lobbyists. Don't give the feds any chances cause they're doing this to save their asses, not ours.

Finally! Enough abuse from the image police.

Wait. There really ARE termination fees???

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