Technology

I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I'll never sign up with a gym again...Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.

The "click-to-cancel" rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.

For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.

It's been a law in Germany for three years now:

German Online Cancel Button Law

Well it's good to know that the courts are willing to tell the executive they can't do things. Shame about it only applying when the feds are helping ordinary people

I'd expect the Spanish inquisition long before I expect the government to do something good for the people.

This is the FTC's rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.

Doesn't that ONLY apply to whatever circuit it's in?

So per the latest Supreme Court ruling, this only applies to that explicit case then, right?.... Right?

what a shocker trump fucking over everyone again

Just for that I'm going to put things in my Amazon and eBay accounts and just keep swapping stuff without buying anything for weeks at a time.

They doing any of this analysis on anything the current administration is up to?

We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin' in cyberpunk dystopias... because you're in one.

the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule

The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.