Lots of things are easy to sign up for. Lots of things are also not so easy to quit. With the new “click-to-cancel” rule implemented by the US Federal Trade Commission, that’s about to change. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gets about 70 complaints a day about charges for subscriptions that are hard to cancel,…
Newsletter 56: Why Google got caught and it won’t matter; public domain photo search engine; X whines about boycott. Plus three people to follow and three books to read. Did Google cheat? What do you think. Did Google violate antitrust law by unlawfully using its monopoly to exert leverage in other markets? Of course it…
The attorneys general of 46 states, plus DC, filed a federal antitrust suit against Facebook yesterday. The same day, the Federal Trade Commission announced a separate suit alleging anti-competitive practices. I think these suits will be hard to prove, and any remedies won’t fix the bigger problems with Facebook’s abuse of data and damage to…