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Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees (www.nyc.gov)
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[โ€“] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Their corporate donors don't want them to. And they want those donors happy for two reasons, so they can get rich via kickbacks and insider info because Congress is apparently exempt from insider trading, and when they leave office they get a nice cushy lobbying job using the connections they made in office to deal.

[โ€“] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

ie, corruption. every single politician like that should rot in a jail cell. it's so normalised that we have basically one major exception