“Click To Cancel” Rule Is Blocked

It was going to be easier to cancel subscriptions, but an appeals court has decided Americans have to hunt for that option on websites. The Federal Trade Commission's "click-to-cancel" rule was announced last year with the goal of making it just as easy to cancel something as it was to enroll. It was set to take effect in a few days, but the court yesterday said the agency hadn't done a proper regulatory analysis of the rule. That's required when the impact on the economy is more than $100-million. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a trade group representing major cable and internet providers such as Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, and media companies like Disney Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery fought to block the rule.


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