We’d get better and quicker decisions from the FCC if it followed the same regulatory procedures as the FTC.
I wrote here a couple of months ago about the shady practice among a few Internet retailers of handing off customers who accept a “special offer” to a company that charges people a monthly fee for some kind of credit monitoring service. And I argued hopefully that maybe technologists and the Internet community could generate [...]
Our job here at TLF is generally to talk about policy as opinion leaders, but I tend to be a little campaign-y sometimes. When I see something I don’t like, I’ll use this platform to sound off about it. It appears that ProFlowers.com engages in a shady practice: handing customers who accept a “special offer” [...]
Most debates–from privacy to net neutrality–about consumer protection in Internet policy come down to the following increasingly-cliched exchange: 1. Advocate of Regulation: “The government must intervene to protect users against Companies who want to [___________] by writing new laws or regulations!” 2. Regulatory Skeptic: “Why don’t we rely on the FTC’s enforcement of End User [...]
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