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Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees (www.ftc.gov)
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Rule targets bait-and-switch pricing for live-event tickets and short-term lodging

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I was just looking at an event ticket and wondering what happened with this proposal!

The FTC estimates that the Junk Fees Rule will save consumers up to 53 million hours per year of wasted time spent searching for the total price for live-event tickets and short-term lodging.

I will miss Lina Khan so much! I hope we get to see more of her in the future. She's the best person with a vision of a bright future I've seen in government.

The final rule will become effective 120 days after its publication in the Federal Register.

I hope this rule gets left alone by the incoming admin. It doesn't forbid anyone from charging whatever they want, it just makes the price transparent and lets us not waste our time on sneaky crap it turns out we can't afford.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I would not mind her running in 2028

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if she has such aspirations, and there would continue to be much opposition from the status quo from both sides. The FTC seemed the perfect place for her.

Put her back there under a president with a real drive to end the growing oligarchy and an at least neutral Supreme Court, and we could have a tremendous new trust busting administration to end our second Gilded Age.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

honestly im not sure why anyone would want to for the dems at this point. biden had a pretty tough skin but the left rheteric I see tends to be pretty fair weather. this last one throws me for a loop. omg we gotta change to this young vibrant woman who is just going to be the greatest thing. ugh you lost because you ran a bad election and you did not do this right or that right its all your fault. its like heros to zeros to heros. you see the same with like bernie. I feel the dem base is becoming a party of the moment but we need to be looking at the big picture which is simply that the republicans only work in the interest of the rich and are batshit crazy to boot.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I worry about the consistent lack of raising up future candidates. A lot of opinion pieces keep popping up about how the Dems have learned nothing from Biden/Harris, and I tend to agree. We have the same party leadership after a series of failed campaigns. Having Biden win as the non-Trump candidate worked once as a lucky fluke, but who's up next?

We know what leaders Reps are working on. Vance, Desantis, Ramaswamy, Gabbard. All relatively young people to get molded and improved to take eventual leadership roles. But who are the Dem equivalents?

It feels like no plan is in place. Declaring yourself to be the high road is obviously not enough. Whether it is policy, messaging, or both, what exists is not doing it. Even what is being accomplished is far too conservative for many, especially dealing with the environment, immigration, the economy, and foreign policy.

I think Biden did a lot of good for the environment, one of my main concerns, but things like economic messaging, Gaza, and foot dragging in Ukraine still really ticked me off to put it nicely.

Starting a third party seems like building a battleship from scratch when we could mutiny on the one we're already on like the Tea Party to MAGA movement did to traditional conservatives. But we need to get our asses in gear as from the ever creeping election cycle means we need a candidate and a plan in 2 years.

Who that is though doesn't even feel on my radar though, and that is a serious issue.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I really don't see how messaging around the economy could work. It was all their but most people just don't get how it works. Do you think biden dragged his feet with ukraine. I feel like he was dragged down by congress especially tying things to gaza which of course got him flak from his base.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They had messaging and lots of it, but for the majority of the people that don't follow politics (or don't follow them very well!) the message was either not in line with the base's perception of that reality or some found it downright insulting. I'm doing ok for myself, but even I had to remind myself constantly that things were getting better, even though I could feel real squeezing in price of goods.

I feel everyone has dragged their feet with Ukraine. I think since it seems Russia's might has been exposed as a paper tiger, that we have been sleeping on an opportunity to make life better for millions of people in the former Soviet republics and in Russia proper. I'm not one for forced regime change, but Putin brought this one on himself, and I'd like to see Russia and the former Soviet lands have a real chance to modernize and open more doors to the rest of the world.

Biden seemed much more willing to aid Isreal than Ukraine, in part because the right supports Israel for cuckoo reasons, but in the opportunities I heard him speak on Israel, they seemed to have his personal support, not just diplomatically. I dislike many of our Middle East alliances, but I don't really want to get too deep into my takes on WWI and WWII treaties. Stirring up more conflict is not the way I wish to see things continue though. People need to address past and present wrongs. How we achieve it, much like everyone else, I have no clue, but the present situation is absolutely not it.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean I feel its best to concentrate on present and then past by proximity. Technically israel existence is due to peoples perception about the past. I hate the us being the policeman of the world thing, but im not sure I would not have wanted the sorta peace it had. I really really wish though that we had limited ourselves to the atlantic and pacific ocean but just insisted that other countries deal with things passed there. Basically stay out of the middle east. including the saudis.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In a way I agree, but the Allies promised things in the exchange for cooperation against the Ottomans, and that isn't the kind of thing people forget, and is the start of a lot of the problems ever since. Plus creating the state of Israel was not an altruistic thing, it was spearheaded by many antisemites who were just as willing to dump them off in Madagascar until the Middle East fell into their laps.

But I try to avoid wading into too controversial territory since I'm too lazy to use an alt, so I'm going to stop here and revert back to my original pro Lina Khan position! 😜

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah and I get that. People tend to look at history from a very simplistic lens and don't see the way political decisions sorta limit later ones. Heck people see current political things like they are so easy and not impacted by history and alliances and treaties and such.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a real investment most people don't find necessary to learn all this stuff. Even having the knowledge really doesn't give you that much to actually accomplish doing anything with it.

Like most things, it can be looked at in micro or macro levels. There are the specific current events, but we didn't get here from nowhere, there is a rich history of previous events and decisions and the recollection of those events is different for every participant.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Our system of government is also designed so that most people aren't supposed to have to know about the intricacies of politics

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That is both a pro and con that's been debated as long as democracy has existed.

The founders also debated if regular folk were wise enough to pick good representatives. Even since, we've changed how some positions are filled, by direct election or by appointments. We have representatives pass some laws by democratic vote, some by executive order, and some by ballot initiatives. We pick and choose what level of involvement we want the masses to have all the time.

Many problems with democracy in its modern state have been debated since the Ancient Greeks. The great philosophers saw how democracy can be turned to tyranny by appealing to people's emotions rather than things being driven by fact. Here's a nice little article on that!

We haven't ironed out all the issues yet on how we should govern ourselves, and the more I watch my fellow humans, the more it puzzles me we can be so technically advanced as a society while still falling victim to residual primate instincts that appear totally irrational to anyone observing from the outside, while that same observer is likely falling victim to the same thing wherever they are living.

I don't hate the US system of government, but its creators knew it wasn't perfect. They tried to design mechanisms to let it be corrected, but do a majority of us feel we're currently in the right course? Ignorance of politics certainly didn't help the Ancient Greeks stay on top of the world, and it isn't doing the world any favors right now.

[–] tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not sure she can; she was born in the UK and moved to the US when she was 11

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

That would rule her out for president.

I first heard about her study about Amazon she did at Columbia.

I liked her at the FTC so much so I never learned where she was actually from.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 6 months ago

oh yeah. thats a non starter then.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Booked a night in Boston this summer. Didn't read the entire confirmation email. Buried near the bottom

Needless to say it went up way more than that, credit card company got involved and reimbursed me. Westin hotel in Boston by the pier. Fuck em.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, Boston is in on the racket too, huh?

I first learned about that fee in Las Vegas. They were calling it a "resort fee," but it's the same thing.

They justify it because you technically get something for it (free drink from hotel bar, use of the gym, etc) but you don't get a choice if you pay it or not, even if you don't claim any of the items you're entitled to.

Feels like a sneaky cover charge or drink minimum. Just add it to the actual price, dangit! I eat and drink where I please and sure as heck don't want to work out on vacation!

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow. Did I read that right? Something good happened?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

You're right!

2025

That's now "burdensome regulation!" Goodbye!