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Full title: NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions / As of Thursday, the city’s click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.
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This was a federal rule, one guess who undid it.
And Lina Khan is in NYC now!
Nixon.
You guessed wrong. There are now two doors in front of you, one leads to hell. Choose wisely.
Was it Orange Foolius?
Pants Shitler
So set my VPN to NYC, got it
A lot of them probably will require proof of address like a lot with the California laws.
And it’ll only take one NYC resident to challenge that before the requirement is outlawed. If it doesn’t require proof of address to sign up, it shouldn’t require proof of address to cancel.
This is refreshing. I’m so tired of right wing people being like “the government can’t do anything right and I’m going to prove it by sabotaging and starving the government”.
Imagine what we could have if we ran the government to help people.
California has something similar enough: https://www.engadget.com/general/californias-click-to-cancel-subscription-bill-is-signed-into-law-123058770.html.
Mamdani for president
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?
The thing to remember is Mamdani’s success isn’t just him being such a great guy. Sure he’s nice and charismatic, but he wouldn’t be possible without the massive grassroots organizing that got him elected. He couldn’t be pumping out these policy wins without the support of a great cabinet of passionate people lending their expertise to make all this happen.
It might be hard to replicate Mamdani’s raw charisma, but we can and must replicate that movement for any office we hope to achieve. It is harder to do this on a national level though, but we already almost did it with Bernie, and the movement’s only grown since then.
That natural born citizen thing gets in the way unfortunately
Trump is constitutionally barred from running again and is definitely going to run in 2028. There are no rules anymore, everyone has been using the constitution as toilet paper for decades.
I hate how true this is.
Just a friendly reminder that your city could be doing any of this right now as well.
It would have less effect. Small towns would probably just be geoblocked. NYC has more people than a majority of states.
Genuine question, how does a municipal government pass and enforce a law like this? Where I live I don’t think a municipal government could do this (both practically and legally)
Who does this rule apply to and how would the city enforce it?
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.
Gyms would go bankrupt
Frankly they should
Correct I wonder what the allowance of the business funding is attributed to subscriptions not used. I think they must factor it in. Then second question is how much with this actually cost them,
Big Kwame does it again
But won’t anyone think of all the lost revenue for these companies who purposely made it exceptionally difficult to cancel subscriptions
/s
Are they going to try to force compliance on companies outside of NY? Even if they could, will we sites just block NY IP addresses? How does this work?
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.
Mandami is like Trump, you hear about something he does every day, but it doesn’t make you wanna jump off a highway onto a much lower highway exclusively for tractor trailers, in Phoenix.
Good luck getting planet fitness to allow this.
Planet fitness doesn’t have fuck you money to defend this in a lawsuit. They’ll comply to avoid being sued into irrelevance.
well, they down from 9 Billion Enterprise value to 4 Bil this year, but that’s still pretty close to fuck you money :)
I wouldn’t call that close to fuck you money. Not with today’s dollar value. 4 billion is a rounding error to companies with fuck you money that regularly break the law.
