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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices
(www.theguardian.com)
Omg this all needs to be country-wide
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There was an FTC law for exactly this during Biden but I'm guessing nothing ever came of it. Basically, cancelling had to be as easy as signing up.
FTC not FCC
the article mentions this y'all
A national click-to-cancel rule introduced by the Biden administration was struck down by a federal judge in 2025, days before it was set to go into effect, over a procedural rule. Donald Trump’s FTC plans to pass a similar rule in coming months.
https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2025/07/23/eighth-circuit-voids-ftc-click-to-cancel-rule/ :
Under federal law, the FTC must issue a preliminary regulatory analysis when a proposed rule would have an annual effect on the national economy surpassing $100 million. The FTC said that the rule would not have an annual $100 million impact on the economy. However, an Administrative Law Judge found that the proposed rule would have an annual effect surpassing the $100 million threshold. The FTC was not excused from having to prepare the analysis if its initial economic analysis was deemed inaccurate, the judges wrote. They said that after the Administrative Law Judge’s decision, the FTC could have reissued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with the required preliminary analysis.
I'm surprised just as much by Mamdani's policies as I am by how much power American cities have to govern themselves. You can move to a different city and suddenly it's a new world.
In the EU, or at least in my country, cities have very little power, and so the laws are virtually the same in all of them. Whenever there are any differences, it's mostly minor stuff like littering penalties or parking rules.
If you list these by gdp per capita, American cities take up like 25 out of the top 30 spots. That's not the only thing that goes into it surely, but as a quick baseline, that's kind of impressive in its own way