“Protein supplements are wildly popular, but CR’s tests of 23 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day”
Tag: consumer interests
Residential electric utility customers shouldn’t have to subsidize costs for rich tech billionaires.
Electric utility companies need to prioritize serving the people, the residential customers, and should not be allowed to make residential customers foot the costs of data center expenses by allowing subsidization through socializing those costs over all customers.
The supplement boom is based in shoddy science, or no real science at all.
Because so often the online marketing of supplements and various wellness products involves linking to a study that doesn’t back up their claims at all, but nobody ever clicks through so they get away with fraudulent appeal to authority.
Youtube allows ads that make a really great argument for the government to crack down on this stuff.
These bonkers eyeglasses commercials aren’t even the worst commercials I’ve seen on Youtube, but a lot of these ads are great arguments for government regulation that’s unfortunately not happening. Ever since I was getting new glasses recently, which involved a multiple trips to eye care over a couple of months in order to get it […]
Another attempt, this time at the state level, to legislate forcing consumers into harm from automated stuff without recourse.
Colorado edition. The Lever – Aug 19, 2025 The Plot To Outlaw AI Lawsuits State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI use potentially violates consumer protection laws. Helen Santoro Under pressure from tech giants after their legislative loss in Washington, Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has called […]
Dangerous products do get to market, or even stay on the market.
De-regulation actually means re-regulation – in favour of industry, not people over profits, so there’s really no such thing as deregulation.
Some court cancelled click-to-cancel; but there ought to be a law!
It should obviously be as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.
Signs it’s a scam.
“Don’t respond to unexpected calls, emails, texts, or social media messages that ask for money or personal information.”
Trump administration FTC dropped rulemaking against predatory surveillance pricing.
If the FTC is not going to help consumers on this, because Elon Musk decided he didn’t want them investigating him, well that means we need legislation.
Elon Musk has sued Tesla customers who complain, and also journalists who criticize.
And he’s won the suits for lots of money.
They can’t even make books right anymore, commerce is crap.
“you can actually see how far he got into it before he realized that he’s missing like 60 Pages”