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That symmetrical registration/cancellation is being slow-walked like this is absurd (but under this admin, certainly not surprising).
It's absurd if you believe the point of government is to be by, for, and of the people. If you see government as a way to enhance the ability of the owner class to enrich themselves, it makes perfect sense.
It's better to think about it in terms of "people who choose to pursue positions of power to benefit themselves financially while cosplaying as wanting to help the average person".
A better system idea - every data point of user data needs a datetime stamp and source. Any request for your own private data will then come with datetime stamps and source origins for every piece of data they have of you. Thereby allowing you to cut off at the source and request deletion, which they must then propagate upstream or risk a fine per data point.
But they're not required to give it to you, and they won't.
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Democrats see government differently than Republicans.
Well yes, I agree. But GP was saying "government" writ large behaves XYZ.
It seems like you're looking to fight on the internet - would you consider a different activity instead?
> the burdens that forcing compliance by this date would impose With no consideration given to how consumers may be harmed by non-enforcement meanwhile.
That leaves a lot of room for the "Cancel" option to be buried in an obscure hard to find part of the website. I'd have hoped there was a requirement for it to be as prominent and as easy to find as the "Subscribe" option (and maybe there is, just not mentioned in this piece?)
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Chargebacks might upset that being a big benefit, and being the firm that takes a stance for customer care could be good advertising fodder. Though I don't see it working unless they both do it in step which minimises the useful effect of that against each other. It could still be a benefit vs other payment methods, what is PayPal's policy on such things?
Number of people afraid to pickup the phone and talk to another human being instead of letting few hundred in forgotten subscription is larger than I previously thought. By that sense, without any data, I suspect that chargeback amount is wayyyy smaller headache compared to txn fees from forgotten uncancelled subscriptions.
It's maybe comforting to think "oh, people just don't want to call, they'd rather eat the fees" when this is way over simplifying the problem and giving way too much credit to sites that operate this way.
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It's absurd if you believe the point of government is to be by, for, and of the people. If you see government as a way to enhance the ability of the owner class to enrich themselves, it makes perfect sense.
"owner class" is too outdated and myopic. It's also incorrect, as plenty of people born into low income households go on to become elected representatives. It's better to think about it in terms of "people who choose to pursue positions of power to benefit themselves financially while cosplaying as wanting to help the average person".