Pluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Opinion | Trump Is Turning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Into Something Very Different
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Dismantling the CFPB Signals a Return to Pre-2008 Levels of Corporate Fraud - Roosevelt Institute
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This would mean, he explained, that the government would ban any business model that tracks you online in order to figure out your weaknesses and then sells that private data to the highest bidder so they can change your behavior.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
If the Tech Right sees this fight as the inevitable march of progress, the Populist Right is writing an entirely different anthem. Nowhere is this more visible than in Tennessee, where Governor Bill Lee signed the ELVIS Act, a landmark law recognizing an artist’s voice and likeness as a protected property right, specifically to block unauthorized A... See more
2. So we did something about it: Low interest rates and the intentional birth of the American consumer.