FTC Takes Action Against Uber for Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices
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The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit today against Uber, alleging the rideshare and delivery company charged consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent, failed to
      • Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        2 months ago

        Very, very optimistic of you to assume this isn’t just retaliation for something, or because Musk is planning some new rideshare company/arm of Tesla.

        • BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io
          51·
          2 months ago

          Well the Facebook and Google antitrust lawsuits have both been going since the Biden administration and Zuckerberg was at the inauguration and that lawsuit hasn’t been stopped yet. Maybe the FTC still has some power? Or DOGE forgot about them (lol no) or DOGE just hasnt gotten to them yet.

          I doubt well see the FTC sue Tesla anytime soon but if they can work on some of these other tech giants I welcome it.

          • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I believe at least one of the anti-trust lawsuits Google lost was brought by the previous Trump Administration.

  • Audacious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    2 months ago

    Really surprised the current government regime actually cares about this, because it’s about scamming the populace.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    muskrat still has that hallucination that everybody’s gonna be riding around in fully-autonomous self-driving teslas, right? so that’d mean this case will be ‘‘allowed’’ to proceed.