Hot Topic: Are you rooting for the FTC or Amazon in the consumer-protection lawsuit?

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Last week, the FTC filed a lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly “tricking and trapping” customers concerning Amazon Prime. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon deploys “dark patterns” to get consumers to enroll in Prime without their consent and that the process of canceling Prime, which requires six clicks, is onerous.

You tell us: Are you rooting for the FTC or Amazon in the lawsuit that claims Amazon violated consumer-protection laws? Cast your vote here.

Circling back: Last week, we told how, in France, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that 75 major food companies had agreed to cut prices on hundreds of products, a response to prices hitting record highs in recent months even though the costs of many ingredients in the products have been dropping.

So we asked you: If US federal officials determined food brands were making undue profits during an inflationary period, would you be in favor of the government stepping in to get food companies to drop prices? More than two-thirds of you (66.1%) said yes, you would be in favor of the government stepping in to get the food brands to lower prices. Another 30.4% were laissez-faire, saying no, you’d be against the government stepping in, while 3.6% didn’t know or weren’t sure.