I don't think people understand that thanks to a corrupt supreme court, every corporation in every sector touching every corner of your life is going to argue that consumer protection is now effectively illegal
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sarah jeong
June 28: SCOTUS overturns Chevron.
October 16: FTC finalizes rule requiring gyms, etc to make it easier to cancel subscriptions.
October 23: Telecom industry group sues to block the click-to-cancel rule.
www.theverge.com/24188365/che... www.reuters.com/business/med...
October 16: FTC finalizes rule requiring gyms, etc to make it easier to cancel subscriptions.
October 23: Telecom industry group sues to block the click-to-cancel rule.
www.theverge.com/24188365/che... www.reuters.com/business/med...
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even many people in policy seem to be sleep walking through this as if the harms are over-stated and purely theoretical
but the impact is not going to be subtle
and corporations will claim everything is a reach either way, bogging the courts down in endless challenges against anything they don't like
https://birminghamwatch.org/the-tragedy-of-north-birmingham/
Wait... they said there'd be an "invisible hand".
people still operate on an idea of government that was set in the 60s
neuter SCOTUS.
* but this requires lighting a fire under the DEMs, getting them to play hardball, *real* hardball, with the Press (because they are not your friends & actively lie), and understand that politeness is not the same as spineless.
neuter SCOTUS!
On the flip side, if this is the new reality I want the Airline Deregulation Act overturned as well.
the intentional legal chaos will be endless
Shit is dark, my friend...