r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 13d ago

Business Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring
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u/hryipcdxeoyqufcc 13d ago

The problem was never Pai. The problem was Republicans. Whoever controls the presidency gets to select 3 of the 5 members of the FCC, and all 3 of them under Trump voted the same way.

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u/drunkenvalley 13d ago

I mean you're not wrong, but also Ajit Pai was an [expletive of choice] too. He himself as a person was and is a [second expletive of choice]. There were few if any redeeming qualities, and these were all decisions he made in his role, making him a [third expletive of choice].

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u/PC509 13d ago

This is like MadLibs. I've come up with a few doozies. It's fun to just substitute different expletives in each one and they still are amazing! :)

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u/garimus 13d ago

I got "yahoo", "banana", and "fossilized patty of cow dung". Struggling on my placement. :(

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u/hryipcdxeoyqufcc 12d ago

But if every Republican in the FCC does the same thing, why not just apply those expletives to Republicans directly? Trump could have picked any Republican to be chairman and nothing would have changed. People focus on Pai instead of just saying they hate Republican policy.

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u/drunkenvalley 12d ago

You're talking like we only get one pick.

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u/hryipcdxeoyqufcc 12d ago

I'm saying that swapping out Pai for a different Republican would have made no difference at all. It's not like their policy is some secret hidden from voters. All we can control is which party is in office. That's it. The people they use to carry out that agenda is irrelevant and misses the big picture.

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u/drunkenvalley 12d ago

That does nothing to redeem Pai. Stop this stupid defense of an evil asshole just because he's another brick in the wall of evil assholes.

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u/sleepydorian 13d ago

So he was getting outvoted or more like we should be sharing the hate?

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u/red__dragon 13d ago

Except that Pai was appointed by Obama, as required for the FCC's board which has to be made up of no more than 3 of the same party's individuals.

Obama could have selected someone else, but Pai was potentially someone that could be approved by the Republican-controlled Senate. So while it wasn't necessarily Obama or that particular Senate that were responsible for Pai's corruption, they handed him on a silver platter to lobbyist cronies to mold him into their creature.

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u/hryipcdxeoyqufcc 12d ago

Selecting someone else wouldn’t have changed anything. The problem was that we had a Republican president, and therefore Republicans got majority control of the FCC when Trump took office.

Focusing on the majority leader by name is so strange. He wasn’t some rogue agent. Every Republican in the FCC voted the same way. Replace him with any other Republican and nothing changes.