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A then-commissioner who is now the head of the FTC.

• guelo 1y ago
  That commissioner also hated the fact that consumers were going to stop being robbed by big corps.
  • VonTum 1y ago
    I find it unproductive to assign emotion to such blatant corruption. I'd rather frame it as "That comissioner sees it to be in his personal best interest to not stop consumers being robbed by big corps."
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    • db48x 1y ago
      “The commissioner sees it as important that his government department actually follows the rules as written down by Congress” seems like a fairer interpretation. Congress literally wrote “You must do X when Y”, and the FTC said “Well, probably Y isn’t true anyway, so we can skip doing X”. It’s true that Y involves an estimate, since there’s no way to calculate the exact number, but their estimate was clearly cooked with the specific purpose of letting them rush. The new rules seem like good rules, too, so it’s really a shame that they decided that it was more important to rush than to do it right. That makes the old commissioner a bungler at best.
• miltonlost 1y ago
  Ah so a Trump appointee and 2 judges appointed by Trump. Now that's a group I would never trust to follow the law.