{"id":14510,"date":"2024-01-08T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:21:26","slug":"news-media-alliance-joins-stakeholder-letter-on-ftc-process-for-negative-option-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/news-media-alliance-joins-stakeholder-letter-on-ftc-process-for-negative-option-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"News\/Media Alliance Joins Stakeholder Letter on FTC Process for Negative Option Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News\/Media Alliance joined 20 other associations in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/122223_CoalitionLetter_FTC_NegativeOptionRule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0082c0;\">letter<\/span><\/a> on December 22 outlining concerns with the process the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established to solicit public feedback on its proposed amendments to the Negative Option <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2023\/04\/24\/2023-07035\/negative-option-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0082c0;\">Rule<\/span><\/a> regarding subscriptions and recurring payments, including a \u201cclick to cancel\u201d provision. In addition, the organizations request the Commission to withdraw its Final Informal Hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2023\/12\/ftc-hold-virtual-informal-hearing-january-2024-part-its-review-proposed-click-cancel-rulemaking?utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0082c0;\">notice<\/span><\/a>, which is scheduled for January 16, and issue an initial hearing notice consistent with previous rulemakings and federal law. This will provide an opportunity for interested parties to participate in an informal hearing as well as to petition the Presiding Officer to consider disputed issues of material fact. The Alliance will keep you apprised of developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News\/Media Alliance joined 20 other associations in a letter on December 22 outlining concerns with the process the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established to solicit public feedback on its proposed amendments to the Negative Option Rule regarding subscriptions and recurring payments, including a \u201cclick to cancel\u201d provision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,486,512],"tags":[716],"class_list":["post-14510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-home","category-subs-mktg-a","tag-tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}