this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
211 points (99.5% liked)
Pulse of Truth
400 readers
60 users here now
Cyber Security news and links to cyber security stories that could make you go hmmm. The content is exactly as it is consumed through RSS feeds and wont be edited (except for the occasional encoding errors).
This community is automagically fed by an instance of Dittybopper.
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
yeah...all the elderly old farts in our government are totally going to put something together that will NOT make problems like that worse.
Services have existed for decades. Centuries, even.
yes, but not in a digital form like the kinds of subscription services that make it nearly impossible to cancel.
The elderly members of congress won't know how to help the situation, so it's overwhelmingly likely that whatever they end up voting on will either be written by people who don't understand how that stuff works, or, more likely the bill(s) written will be written by lobbying groups
They don't have to understand the intricacies of online services to write a law that says, "It can be no more difficult to cancel a service than it is to initiate the service."
Yes, the courts would have a right fun time sorting out a poorly written law, but that will be because of ~~legalized bribery~~ lobbyists, not because it's an actually difficult task.