‘Unthinkable’: Trump FTC Chair Shuts Down Public Comments on Corporate Pricing Tactics “Chairman Ferguson could have done any number of things to actually lower the cost of living and create opportunities for American businesses and workers,” said one Democratic FTC commissioner. “He did none of them.” Jake Johnson Jan 24, 2025 Common Dreams Shortly after taking over as FTC chair earlier this week, Andrew Ferguson declared that “DEI is over” at the agency and demanded a swift vote on a motion giving him sweeping authority to “comply with President Trump’s orders ending DEI across the federal government.” Meanwhile, with no such fanfare, Ferguson shuttered FTC requests for information and public comments on corporate mergers and acquisitions, “protecting workers from illegal business practices,” “predatory pricing,” and “surveillance pricing practices,” which refer to companies’ use of personal data to set individualized prices.
My letter to reps:
What happened with the FTC’s excellent plans to stop predatory surveillance pricing practices? 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. STOP PREDATORY SURVEILLANCE PRICING!