This is what legitimate government looks like. Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power.

While this may be a trivial issue, being able to cancel a gym or newspaper subscription, it sends a signal. Companies need to view customers as partners in a business transaction and not objects to be exploited.

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ianmarcinkowski 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have similar feelings.

I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it?

Normal people have very little say over the politicians that govern them in larger electoral regions like states or provinces, and maybe this can signal to other levels of government that they should implement similar rules... If it works.

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hughw 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

CFPB once played that role for financial services. Ah well.

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colechristensen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it?

With a population of 8.5 million if NYC was a state it would be the 13th largest so I'm quite all right with the city going beyond the normal purview of a city government.

	▲	culi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And if it were a country, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world and the 105th most populous

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voidhorse 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mamdani has been doing great in NYC so far. The hope is that he will inspire similar behavior in others. And drive similar approaches to politics in other constituencies.

	▲	Gigachad 15 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm actually struggling to believe he's done all this stuff. Like it's crazy to see it was possible to fix everything the whole time and all it took was slightly increasing taxes on billionaires and not being corrupt.
	▲	sillyfluke 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Is there a website for New York City where people can petition for things like this? If there's anybody from the mayor's office reading this, how about that all banks must provide their services at minimum on a browser through a web app and cannot mandate the use of a smartphone.
	▲	aliasxneo 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm all for it. Would be great to see exactly how all of his policies play out across a larger area.

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nonethewiser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>This is what legitimate government looks like.

Do you mean good government? Or well-functioning? Any government that is formed legally is legitimate.

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amazingamazing 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lol wait for enforcement before declaring victory

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jafo1989 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power.

Who is deceiving who now? And I'm not sure who is in power here...