@LucasSa56947288@LavondaRomine5 YES, ABSOLUTELY, WITHOUT A DOUBT...
STAGED: Oh, poor Donald Trump... HE'S LOSING AT THE POLLS!!!
How would anyone get a gun through the security system upon entering the Washington Hilton?
@LucasSa56947288 (A: Yes
I have two theories -
• Trump’s approval ratings are dismal and he staged it to buy sympathy.
• It is a false flag. They will claim it was an Iranian terror cell and the war will resume.
#Trump#WCD#GOP#TrueNorthPerspective
Here's what I think about the FTC's settlement with Amazon about its enrollment and cancellation process for Prime.
1) Last year, FTC alleged that Amazon tricked consumers into enrolling in Prime and then made it weirdly impossible for them to get out. Like, you click the button that says "End Your Prime Membership" and it does *not* end your Prime membership, but rather starts you on a 4-page, 6-click, 15-option cancellation journey that Amazon itself compared to that slim airport read, Homer's Iliad.
2) Too often, corporate shells are charged with wrongdoing and the C-suite executives who knowingly enabled that wrongdoing get off free. Not here. Chair Khan, Comm. Slaughter and I made sure we charged, by name, three Amazon executives who we alleged *knew* this was happening, rejected pleas from their own staff to fix it, and "slowed, avoided, and even undid user experience changes" they knew would fix the problem.
3) FTC staff just scored a *huge* win last week. A federal judge granted a key motion filed by FTC staff, agreeing that the law we alleged applied here did in fact apply here, that the way we alleged Amazon collected consumers' data was in fact the way it collected the data, AND that the individual executives we charged *did* in fact have the authority to control the subscription & cancellation process.
4) So, to take a step back, the FTC was *winning* -- the judge was agreeing with the FTC... and the FTC was about to start a trial where they would likely get *more* leverage and could air out the full allegations and evidence against Amazon in public.
5) And then, today, the new FTC leadership announced a settlement: $2.5 billion, $1.5 billion of which will go to consumers. I'll let others address the money. What I'm focused on is those three executives. Because the order effectively tells Amazon to stop doing what it's doing, to follow the law, and then to pay out the $1.5 billion to the consumers -- and the order is in effect for 10 years.
5) Based on my initial read, do the executives need to do anything separate from that? Do they pay any fines? Are they being demoted? Are they subject to extra monitoring? Do they need to admit any guilt whatsoever? The answers, as far as I can tell are no, no, no, no, and no. What's worse, the order applies to the executives for only three years -- seven years less than the company.
6) Why do the flesh and bone executives get off easier than the liability limited fictional legal entity which is Amazon corporation? I feel like asking that question answers it, but still.
7) We have to ask ourselves: What pressure did the White House put on this FTC to enter into this settlement? What communications were there? This doesn't smell right.
8) To be completely clear, I'm being critical of the FTC's political leadership. Staff have to work under them. They worked extraordinarily hard in this case, and whatever my opinion is of this settlement, it says nothing about them, their acumen, and their commitment to protect consumers.
BREAKING: Niagara Falls has been completely taken over by foreign Islamists, calling for a global intifada and jihad.
Locals and tourists are horrified, and the police are nowhere to be found!