A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better
Effective October 1, 2026, New York City will require that companies make it as easy to cancel a subscription online as it is to purchase one.Bernd Leitner/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that would send him ten free CDs in the mail. “I didn’t know it then, but I had just signed up for my first subscription,” Levine said.
- ▪Effective October 1, 2026, New York City will require that companies make it as easy to cancel a subscription online as it is to purchase one.Bernd Leitner/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs.
- ▪When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that would send him ten free CDs in the mail.
- ▪“I didn’t know it then, but I had just signed up for my first subscription,” Levine said.
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| Publication time | Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:50:29 +0000 |
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Effective October 1, 2026, New York City will require that companies make it as easy to cancel a subscription online as it is to purchase one.Bernd Leitner/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that would send him ten free CDs in the mail. “I didn’t know it then, but I had just signed up for my first subscription,” Levine said. A few months and a pile of bills later, he was begging his parents to help him cancel the membership he’d unknowingly purchased.
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