Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom?

jfruh writes The FTC has moved aggressively recently against companies that make it too easy for people — especially kids — to rack up huge charges on purchases within apps. But at a dicussion panel sponsored by free-market think tank TechFreedom, critics pushed back. Joshua Wright, an FTC commissioner who dissented in a recent settlement with Apple, says a 15-minute open purchase window produced "obvious and intuitive consumer benefits" and that the FTC "simply substituted its own judgment for a private firm's decision as to how to design a product to satisfy as many users as possible."

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Re:There is a simple solution

[rmdingler]

Impose. Ban. Regulate.

Is this where we set the bar of government interference in our private lives?

A very simple solution would be the parents don't allow an irresponsible child to play a game with in-game purchasing. Hell, that might even institute a bit of self-restraint a growing child could use the rest of his life.