25 points

LOL at the comments suggesting nothing should be done because this is hard to enforce.

That reasoning is why we don’t have legal abortion, universal health care, a living wage, or term limits.

Some things may be hard to do. It’s no excuse not to try.

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12 points

For sure. It’ll never be enforced completely, but it gives teeth to go after some big offenders.

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20 points

Their heart is in the right place, but good luck doing anything about it

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it’s not hard to find them when they’re selling fake reviews as a service

The article teaser beginning should make that clear as well

Amazon sued more than 10,000 Facebook group administrators in July 2022

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16 points

Gotta start somewhere I guess. And it’s a path in the right direction, at least.

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28 points

So how are they going to detect, proof, and enforce?

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Probably by taking down the companies doing it rather than the people using them. Just set up an account and ask around for where to buy some likes.

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Does that counts as emtrapment?

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Entrapment is enticing someone to do something they wouldn’t do otherwise.

If you ask someone where to buy drugs, and they give you the name of their dealer, you’re not entrapping the dealer since they normally sell drugs.

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14 points

unclear (they don’t tend to announce enforcement mechanisms in these and it’s not a final rule until it’s a final rule), but it’s not like the FTC is lacking in power as an agency

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5 points

Well, that is until the Chevron decision got knocked down.

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How long before Trump publicly rants about this?

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I can already see it: “They’re gonna give everyone healthcare, they’re gonna jail review scammers, they’re gonna let anyone join a union. The monsters.”

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i’m honestly not sure Trump knows anything about the FTC, and if his campaign was smart these are the kinds of things they’d propose instead of “IVF should be illegal but also you’re a degenerate for not having children”

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Extremely based, good job FTC

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