General Discussion

Deceptive disclosures. endless "small print," hard sells, on and on, that ruin peoples lives are all good with the felon's regime, regardless of how central central a product is in consumer's life. Hey' it was there in the contract wasn't it?

We are on our own in a jungle of increasingly damaging and predatory businesses, with health care and the fourth estate topping the list "changing business models" that are directly causing enormous harms.

In the general scheme of things with the regime, consumer protection is a dirty word. AFAIK, the FTC Consumer Protection Bureau and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have essentially stopped all the work those agencies were doing before Jan 20, 2025. As acting Director of CFPB Vought tried to fire 90% of the people but was blocked by a court. Still fired a bunch. He also refused to the funding draw and ordered everyone to not just stop investigations and enforcement actions, but actually reversed actions.

I'm less up on what's happened at FTC CPB, but I have no doubt they aren't doing much protecting of anyone. For example, came across these tidbits from the felon's appointed director: