I had a local company start ignoring my calls and emails after I send a request to cancel. I charged them back for one charge and then they charged me again. Here using someone's credit card without authorization is wire fraud. Then they charged me a third time. Now they have 2 wire fraud charges and credit cards companies won't take payment from them. They will most likely beat the criminal charges because corperations can basically steal from you without consequences but I had to do like 10 calls to the charge dispute department and by call 6 the agent I was dealing with was so pissed they told me they are going to blacklist them because it was a mystery how they were able to charge me repeatedly and they just needed to make it stop.

I presume that if they have an office there then can pressure them/sue them. Difficult at that level I suspect. I'm surprised they have the power to make a law like that devolved to them, in the UK it's pretty strict what local governments are allowed to legislate.

If only. That natural born citizen thing gets in the way unfortunately.

But this guy keeps proving that politics done right can actually help people. Who knew that was possible?

word...

The political compass is fine, it's just the US which has sawed off the outer third of the left side x-axis, while eliminating the y-axis altogether, bunching authoritarian and libertarian groups into a constantly infighting sack of cats.

“radical communism” 🙄

the GOP and even a lot of people on “the left” in the US couldn’t give you half the description of what communism is. this regulation falls squarely under classical Liberalism, and despite their squawking about Libertarianism or whatever Republicans act more like Liberals than their ideology poisoned brains could comprehend.

Exactly. This type of thing is such obvious low hanging fruit quick win for any government.

And Lina Khan is in NYC now!

Nixon.

I so wish he was eligible to run for president...

A lot of them probably will require proof of address like a lot with the California laws.

It would have less effect. Small towns would probably just be geoblocked. NYC has more people than a majority of states.

Imagine what we could have if we ran the government to help people.

Frankly they should

If similar to equivalent state regs, when access to customers residing in that market is gated by compliance and subject to lawsuits or ban, the first phase of business-side operations change is immediately setting up minimum compliance workflow like a special webpage coupled with countermeasures (like proof of residency; IP historically difficult in court but has been used successfully for state-specific age gating) and boundary testing cycles. With especially large markets, however, the overhead associated with maintaining multiple separate workflows fails the efficiency test and the workflows are merged, which is how everyone tends to benefit from pro-consumer laws like GDPR.