Cory Doctorow on Nostr: (If this sounds familiar, it's also the what happened during the long period when the ...
(If this sounds familiar, it's also the what happened during the long period when the IRS chased middle class taxpayers over minor filing errors, while ignoring the billionaires and giant corporations that engaged in 7- and 8-figure tax scams.)
But the FTC wasn't merely underfunded: it was *timid*. The FTC has extremely broad enforcement and rulemaking powers, which most sat dormant during the neoliberal era:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge17/
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