Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Take shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency charge with ...
Take shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency charge with defending America from financial predators (e.g. would-be userers hoping to turn their social media sites into payment processing platforms). Under Biden's CFPB chief Rohit Chopra, the Bureau was an absolute *powerhouse*, adopting rules, investigating scammers, and punishing wrongdoers, all in service to the American people:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry10/
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