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Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

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Re: Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how is voter suppression operating Well, one egregious example would be sending a SWAT team to arrest someone in the early morning because they were erroneously allowed to register but not to vote. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/florida-voter-fr... Or aggressively purging voter rolls in minority districts. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lawsuit-alleges-ohio-illegally-p... Or closing voting sites in minori…

thanks. This is outrageous. How is it possible for these actions to occur, especially closing voting sites? Surely there should be federal mandate that there should be X number of voting sites per Y number of residents

Like much else in the U.S. system of government, responsibility for managing elections is distributed between the federal and local governments, and most of the laws are local, not federal.

For decades much of the south was under federal oversight because the suppression of black voting rights was so flagrant that Congress passed a law to impose some sanity, but the law was significantly hamstrung by the Supreme Court in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

Re: Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

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It also dies behind dark patterns that prevent you from canceling the subscription. I've subscribed to a few publications over the years but not any more. After getting burned a few times from an easy to sign up but impossible to cancel user experience I have sworn them all off. I refuse to support subscriptions that require talking to a person. And waiting on hold and having to navigate the operator trying to preven…

Once signed up for the WSJ. Took 10 minutes just put in my credit card and address, got a sign up discount, and boom was done. 3 months later I needed to cancel. It turns out you can only cancel by a phone call, during their business hours on the east coast. Of course that wasn't the end because then it was probably twenty minutes on hold and fighting with. "No I want to cancel. No I don't care if you offer me a disc…

Just checked. They will now let me cancel online. It has suspend and cancel options next to each other and bills itself as "1 click cancel." Maybe they listened to you.

Re: Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

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post #23

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Once signed up for the WSJ. Took 10 minutes just put in my credit card and address, got a sign up discount, and boom was done. 3 months later I needed to cancel. It turns out you can only cancel by a phone call, during their business hours on the east coast. Of course that wasn't the end because then it was probably twenty minutes on hold and fighting with. "No I want to cancel. No I don't care if you offer me a disc…

Just checked. They will now let me cancel online. It has suspend and cancel options next to each other and bills itself as "1 click cancel." Maybe they listened to you.

What state are you looking at it from?

Re: Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just checked. They will now let me cancel online. It has suspend and cancel options next to each other and bills itself as "1 click cancel." Maybe they listened to you.

What state are you looking at it from?

California. It is just following along their support page directions.

https://customercenter.wsj.com/help/article?topic=Policies&t...

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