Click-to-cancel
This is exactly the kind of regulation that is a huge net increase to the actual freedom of most people:
1. Happy new year!
2025 is set to be the year when it becomes as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one.@FTC’s click-to-cancel rule comes into effect on January 14, and businesses have until May 14 to come into full compliance.https://t.co/rnRHWDEk8O https://t.co/jOIO8Azpya— Lina Khan (@linakhanFTC) January 2, 2025
Sorry to people who value the freedom to spend six hours clicking through impenetrable phone trees to cancel their gym membership.
Anyway, I’m sure this is why the Populist President Donald Trump and the Even More Anti-Corporate J.D. Vance will be keeping Kahn as head of the FTC [taps earpiece] oh.