FINALLY

100 points

FTC really do be dropping all of the really hot lawsuits that should have happened years ago… all of 4 days before it won’t matter anymore and the FTC will get dissolved lmfao what a virtue signaling shitfest

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Man, fuck off with that attitude. This isn’t like Biden trying to score points on his way out or the Trump report getting released, the FTC did a ton of good shit the past few years and stuff takes time. They’re rushing all this at the last minute because they have to.

The more they push through, the more time the next admin has to spend dealing with it. I’m sure they know a ton of it will get rolled back but…all of it? Maybe not. Inundating them is all they can do now.

I would have liked to see this sooner but most (all?) of the other issues they tackled were more important than this one

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What did they actually accomplish? All the anti-trust stuff has just been tied up in courts for years and years. And they gave Apple a pass on their Epic lawsuit, which is a fucking travesty.

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There’s been a lot but I don’t blame you for not following them. However, I’m surprised you haven’t even heard about the “popular” ones like killing junk fees and one-click canceling of services.

Here’s an out-of-date list.

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19 points

Right? I just hope the news outlets just put out one giant list of all the lawsuits that the new FTC drops instead of having a million "Trump’s FTC drops lawsuit against [company]

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10 points

It’s all part of the game. Same reason senators constantly introduce bills that they know won’t get passed. So they can say “we tried but the other team refused to pass it”.

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9 points
  1. One party continually tries to pass legislation for safety nets and consolidated services and is blocked by the party that’s controlled the show for almost 40 years

  2. That party goes for tax cuts and havens to keep it’s rich donors happy while blocking anything that helps the other 99%

  3. You: “both sides. I’m smarter than all of you”

Really?

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8 points

No. Not really. I never said anything that remotely resembled that.

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0 points

They wouldn’t introduce those bills if they thought they would actually pass.

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-2 points

True, but it makes headlines and looks good for the party and that’s all that matters. Actual substance is so overrated.

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Friday: GoDaddy CEO donates $1,000,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund

Monday: Trump takes office

Tuesday: Senate confirms new FTC chair

Wednesday: FTC announces a settlement with GoDaddy where the FTC will withdraw the case and GoDaddy agrees to a $125,000 penalty paid over the next five years

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31 points

I wish I lived in a world where this seemed absurd.

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22 points

That’s very generous with the penalty. More likely to get off Scott free

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21 points

More likely the US government will pay them $125k for their trouble in this “political witchhunt.”

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Tangent to the original discussion, but Trump is currently suing the Justice Department for raiding Mar-a-lago (back when we actually had hope that this man would be held to account for his crimes). When he takes office, he could ostensibly direct the Justice Department to settle the case and pay him a settlement.

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2 points

I guess they’re all paying Trump to make sure a Lina Khan will never get there …

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-1 points

$125k over five years is stupid. That’s $25k a year for five years.

GoDaddy made 4.481B last year.

For math nerds, that’s 179,240 times the penalty.

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3 points

That’s the joke

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This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.

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There are things they do that are beyond that, like if you look up a domain on their website to see if its available and it is, theyll essentially register it for cheap and then hold onto it so you can only buy it from them at an upcharged price, and even if you go to another registrar thats cheaper, you cant register it because they already own it

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3 points

Can we set up a bot to look up billions of random character combinations and put them out of business when they buy them all and can’t sell them?

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Because theyre a domain registrar, its not the same process for them. They can essentially pay pennies on the dollar to hold them for several months-a year. I’m not sure if they get it back like a deposit, but it costs them almost nothing. You can complain to WIPO but you might have difficulty getting anywhere without suing and showing something trademark infringement (with a registered trademark)

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17 points

When they gonna go after businesses for this clandestine return to office bullshite

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5 points

Definitely not in the next 4 years

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9 points

For instance, in February 2023, the hosting giant disclosed that unknown attackers stole source code and installed malware on compromised servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year breach.

I assumed their security for this was to keep shuffling around their web site to make that cPanel stuff impossible to find? It’s like a store that keeps rearranging their floor inventory. I dread having to do anything with cPanel. Kudos to the hackers who managed to work it out.

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