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.
Gyms would go bankrupt
This was a federal rule, one guess who undid it.
And Lina Khan is in NYC now!
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”.
It’s pretty crazy that the most no-duh common-sense policies solely exist under the banner of “radical communism.” Almost makes one question the political compass.
Exactly. This type of thing is such obvious low hanging fruit quick win for any government.
“radical communism” 🙄
the GOP and even a lot of people on “the left” in the US couldn’t give you half the description of what communism is. this regulation falls squarely under classical Liberalism, and despite their squawking about Libertarianism or whatever Republicans act more like Liberals than their ideology poisoned brains could comprehend.
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.
California has something similar enough: https://www.engadget.com/general/californias-click-to-cancel-subscription-bill-is-signed-into-law-123058770.html.
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?
Big Kwame does it again
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.
