Word: ftc
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...helped persuade Congress not to act in the late 1970s, when an activist Federal Trade Commission chairman tried to stiffen rules for children's commercials. After fierce lobbying from business groups, the agency was stripped of most of its authority to broadly regulate TV advertising to children and the FTC dropped the matter...
...notice that the prices are very close to each other. That suggests collusion among the drug manufacturers. If it was an effective free market, such as in computers, cameras and televisions, the prices of newer products would be lower. Why hasn't media raised this question? Congress or the FTC should look into the pricing policies of the big pharmas. Gopal Las Vegas...
...Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken some baby steps toward keeping search engines honest. In June 2002, after receiving a complaint from the consumer advocate Commercial Alert, the FTC put out a letter urging search-engine companies to make "clear and conspicuous disclosures" about which search results are paid and which aren't. But the agency has no plans to take formal action. Letting the market solve these problems by itself is the American way. We like to assume that the most objective, least biased search engine will naturally win the search wars. (A typical European approach, by contrast, would...
...loony public spectacle, the on-again-off-again effort to shield Americans from unwanted telemarketing pitches rivals the California recall. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expected to activate its do-not-call list, which is up to 50 million phone numbers, on Oct. 1. But on Tuesday an Oklahoma federal judge said the FTC lacked such authority. Politicians heard the ringing in their ears. By Thursday--faster than any bill had cleared the Capitol since the 1941 declaration of war on Japan--Congress empowered the FTC to deploy its list...
...FTC indicated on Friday that it would appeal the Denver ruling. The D.M.A., meanwhile, has tried some belated image repair by encouraging its members to honor the FTC list voluntarily. More than two dozen states still maintain their own lists. On Friday, an appeals-court victory for the Federal Communications Commission in a similar suit encouraged the FTC to believe it will ultimately win in court. Either way, the telemarketers won't easily shrug off public ire. "All the telemarketers will have done is increase [the list's] size by 50%," FTC chairman Timothy Muris told TIME. But the fight...