The timing and the rest of the guy’s record seem to confirm your cynicism.
Also, once again, this is a whack-a-mole approach, trying to legislate every individual symptom caused by the lack of consumer protections against rent-seeking, rather than regulating industries to forbid their cause. In a world where bad-faith action is a standard business procedure, we have to explicitly legally define words like “own” and “purchase”, because they’ll say they mean something else if we don’t.
The timing and the rest of the guy’s record seem to confirm your cynicism.
Also, once again, this is a whack-a-mole approach, trying to legislate every individual symptom caused by the lack of consumer protections against rent-seeking, rather than regulating industries to forbid their cause. In a world where bad-faith action is a standard business procedure, we have to explicitly legally define words like “own” and “purchase”, because they’ll say they mean something else if we don’t.