Governor Gavin Newsom has signed California’s “click to cancel” Assembly Bill 286 into law to make it easier for consumers to opt out of subscriptions. The bill, introduced in April 2024, forces companies that permit online or in-app sign-ups to allow for online or in-app unsubscribing as well.
"AB 2863 is the most comprehensive ‘Click to Cancel’ legislation in the nation, ensuring Californians can cancel unwanted automatic subscription renewals just as easily as they signed up — with just a click or two,” said California Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo.
As good as this is, it’s just another example of Republicans shrinking the federal government to unsustainable levels. Click-to-cancel will be implemented in California while showing your ID to access porn sites is happening in Texas, but have fun canceling any subscriptions.
Imo that’s great. The best display of what policies make people’s life better is a stark contrast between two groups implementing opposing systems.
Meanwhile, people suffer.
Yeah, that sucks. I would highly support people making better decisions.
But if they are gonna be stubborn, we might as well learn what not to do for the future.
So a Democrat win in California shouldn’t be celebrated, because there’s an unrelated pointless Republican law in Texas? What are you on about?
I’m on about the fact that the federal government is so weak that this is the sort of state-to-state bullshit people have to put up with.
That’s literally how the government was designed though. Do you believe that there should be a Constitutional amendment to protect porn and ease of subscription cancellation? I agree that the system is flawed, but a win here deserves to be celebrated even though there was a loss somewhere else.
There is a constitutional amendment that protects porn though. The first. What’s changed in Texas isn’t porn’s legality, but restrictions on distribution (though yes, Texas’s law is useless and completely misunderstands the internet’s dynamics)
You do know there can be federal laws without requiring a constitutional amendment, yes?
Sarcasm is not lended to text very well. Can you understand that a state that makes a good law is a good thing and that nuance exists.
Please give me the nuance where a click to cancel law makes sense in California and not in all 49 other states.
You’re being obtuse. I’m done here.
Because there is no such nuance. This should be a federal law. It isn’t because the federal government has been too weakened by Republicans over decades. Which was my point.
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You didn’t provide any context. You’ve just named a federal program that has nothing to do with this law, which is about automatic subscription renewals. You certainly haven’t explained why being able to click to cancel such a program is a good thing in California and a bad thing in all 49 other states.
Sign up in Texas, drive to California and fail to cancel with one click, sue.
But I agree with you, we need something like the GDPR on a federal level.
If only there there were a way we could change that…. Hmmm.