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FTC Delays 'Click To Cancel' Rule Implementation To July (reuters.com)

(Thursday May 15, 2025 @11:20AM (msmash) from the PSA dept.)


The Federal Trade Commission has postponed enforcement of its [1]consumer-friendly "click to cancel" rule from May 14 to July 14, [2]giving businesses two additional months to comply . The regulation requires companies to make subscription cancellations as straightforward as the sign-up process, prohibiting practices like forcing customers who subscribed online to navigate through chatbots or call centers to cancel.

The rule, established under former Democratic Chair Lina Khan, unsurprisingly has garnered support from consumer advocates while facing [3]legal opposition from industry groups . A coalition including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and organizations representing major telecom and media companies -- Charter Communications, Comcast, Disney Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Discovery -- has sued to block implementation, claiming the agency exceeded its authority.



[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/16/1550257/ftc-takes-on-subscription-traps-with-click-to-cancel-rule

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ftc-hits-pause-click-cancel-rule-2025-05-09/

[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/24/1940235/cable-companies-ask-5th-circuit-to-block-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule


Does this apply to Gyms? (Score:4, Insightful)

by aicrules ( 819392 )

Because they are about to lose everything if so lol

Re: (Score:2)

by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 )

It does! So much so that the gym industry trade group lobbied for some concessions:

[1]FTC Passes ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule for Gyms; HFA Points to Key Concessions [athletechnews.com]

[1] https://athletechnews.com/click-to-cancel-rule-gyms/

"Delay"? Riiight.. It will be cancelled.. (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward

Oh well, it should be clear by now who the government serves, not that anything will be done about it. Just wanna say you have been warned , for a very long time now

So much winning! (Score:2)

by TheMiddleRoad ( 1153113 )

I can't contain how much winning we're doing. It's overwhelming! We're drowning in winning!

Man Charged With Crashing Windows

MOUNTAIN HOME, AR -- Eric Turgent, a closet Linux advocate, was arrested
yesterday for intentionally crashing his co-worker's Windows box at the
offices of the "Roadkill Roundup" newspaper. Turgent disputes the charges,
saying, "If causing an operating system to crash is illegal, than why
isn't Bill Gates serving life without parole?"

Turgent's co-worker, Mr. Stu Poor, the clueless technology pundit for the
newspaper, is a heavy Microsoft supporter. He frequently brags in his
weekly Tech Talk column that he "once had a conversation with Bill Gates."
A heated argument broke out yesterday morning in which the two insulted
each other ("You're nothing but a Linux hippie freak on the Red Hat
payroll!" vs. "You make Jesse Berst and Fred Moody look like [expletive]
geniuses!") for two hours.

At the heat of the moment, Turgent shoved Poor aside and typed in
"C:\CON\CON". The machine crashed and the pundit lost all of his work (a
real loss to humanity, to be sure). Turgent is in jail awaiting trial for
violating the "Slash Crashes Act". This bill was enacted in 1999 after a
Senator's gigabyte cache of pornography was destroyed by a Windows crash.