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But she's the FTC chair not the legislature. She has to work with the laws as they are not as she wants them to be. I don't believe her role is to be a figurehead for legislative change.


The very fact that the FTC is "doing things" is a complete breath of fresh air. When it fails to do them, that's a sign that the system is rigged against them working (or that the laws we need to ban the things that suck aren't in place yet). It's part of a larger movement.

It sucks that the FTC fighting uphill battles is the only way to make the changes we need. In a better world, the citizenry could make it happen through class-action suits, but the laws we need to have a better world don't exist yet.




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