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Oh look, regulation! So weird that it works for the consumer, right?
by camillomiller 10mo ago
Oh look, regulation! So weird that it works for the consumer, right?
- vjvjvjvjghv 10mo agoWe don’t want socialism with its burdensome regulations!
- nephihaha 10mo agoAll a matter of balance. It can become like that in the wrong hands and often is. Here it is doing something useful. If only they could stop these companies spying as well.
- oaiey 10mo agoThat is neither regulation (just standard contract law) and IMHO a formality, because Amazon could have just formulated it differently: hey we terminate your contract, next offer: same thing with ads (vs. Hey we change the contract for profit). This is not a structural victory just a badly executed change.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 10mo agoThe reason they don't do that is inertia. "Hey we terminate your contract, here's a new worse one" will result in far fewer customers than "lol you got ads now". Same with a lot of providers simply unilaterally raising prices. Entirely illegal, but they are mostly getting away with it.
- Atlas667 10mo agoAmazon probably weren't paying the politicians enough money so the politicians aren't gonna let them screw the consumer! Ah, capitalism, with your endless power imbalance.