Lina Khan is PRECISELY why SCOTUS overturned Chevron. This will just get challenged in that district with a single Trump judge then get pushed up to SCOTUS to be ruled unconstitutional.
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I have banned my waistline from getting any larger.
This is not the same thing. In your case, only you are responsible and accountable for your actions. So no one but you can do anything with real penality. Now, if the FTC banned you from growing your waistline (wrong govt dept, i know), then there would be a potential fiscal penalty and maybe even prison with enough violations.
The right sarcastic comment should have been: I have banned my cute dog from jumping on people when they come over. because we know that i’ll fuss at her, but never punish her harshly.
if the FTC banned you from growing your waistline (wrong govt dept, i know)
I hope, there's no right government department for this. 😅
The best way to get that rolling is to try something. Doing nothing and complaining about it certainly won't help. Sure, changing your diet and exercising might not prevent all growth of your waistline, but it'll probably be able to slow it down at minimum. With enough effort and time it might even shrink it. It's better to start trying literally anything than just sitting back and saying no one should try because it's not going to be perfect.
(This comment applies to things other than your waistline.)
Whoosh
I think you got woodshed. His comment used the example of the smart ass answer about their waist to say the ftc is at least trying and while this may not be effective at least it's a start.
So you're saying they got the joke, they're just disagreeing with the sarcastic remark. Maybe. I have reread it and it still doesn't sound funny to me, was it meant to? If not, does whoosh apply?
And more importantly, why am I trapped in this woodshed?
I'm the writer of the comment. It was meant as a reflection of what they were saying. The original comment was being sarcastic saying they were banning their waistline from getting larger implying it that wouldn't work, just as the FTC ban wouldn't work. My comment was saying they should start putting in some effort to prevent their waistline from growing and it might help some, just like the FTC ban is a step in the right direction for making a difference.
Doing nothing and waiting for perfection is not a solution. Complaining about every step not being a complete cure gets no where. The only way to start making a difference is to take some action. It probably won't be ideal, but it's better than nothing and gets things moving the right way.
Basically, my comment was flipping their sarcastic dismissive reply into a serious productive message.
Well I certainly hope you are right and it does make a difference. Without a robust mechanism for enforcement it will be worse than useless. Which was the point of their joke, and which you did not address.
No it wasn't a funny comment
No no you're behind the woodshed, he took you there and is now bashfully looking at his feet.
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To take effect in October. 2033.
Lina Khan is a hero.
The single best thing Biden has done.
Yeah. We'll see.
I freaking love how Lina Khan is running the FTC. She might be my new favorite cabinet member of all time.
She's a bad ass.
That's great and all, I hope they actually manage to enforce it though.
Doesn't it ever feel to you like they've just collectively stopped making good products by and large and you have to really just, hunt disproportionately hard to find something good and you don't know what to believe anymore when you have a product related decision to make because everything is atroturfed to fuck?
Inflatated social media influence? Does that include the tens of thousands MAGA bots on X?
I'm sorry, Amazon complained about fake reviews!? They know what site they run right, and more to the point the behavior they almost explicitly condone on that site?
they actually dont condone it, its just that the rate they come in is faster than they can filter out.
for example a while back, Amazon removed Ravpower, Aukey, Mpow from Amazon products list due to companies asking basically paying buyers ti give good reviews. its why those companies basically were deleted off in the U.S market allowing for companies like Anker to rapidly grow.
if you live in the bay area in california, there is a well known seller who frequents tech swaps/flea markets selling the products of these companies for very cheap.
Why do they need to filter?
Can't they easily tell that an account bought a certain product? Only allow those accounts to make a review, and only accounts that have made a certain number of purchases before.
there are communities off amazon on various platforms where companies will basically refund your entire order after they confirm a 5* review for a product they bought, and amazon basically attempts to chase those communities wherever they go. It's not easy for amazon to find out which purchases were purchases that were legitamately made by a user vs a user whose been using amazon, but took a backroom deal to get a free product.
I had a roomate in college who was in those kinds of programs to get free shit and can verify that he basically was refunded after purchase of stuff. Of course, this action is extremely against Amazons TOS
Oh they absolutely condone it, both by frequently ignoring reports of fake reviews and occasionally even banning the reporter and by allowing companies to do that thing where they swap product pages to get a bunch of free reviews from something completely different.
on the flip side, they clamp down hard on communities where companies pay people for reviews for free products. It was a huge issue on reddit and several of its communities were essentially banned. its a two faced situation where soo much shit is happening on all sides that it doesnt look like theyre actively fully one sided.
Oh good, now that that's sorted out we can read reviews without worry.
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