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LendingTree Objects to Proposed Robotexting Rules

LendingTree slammed provisions in a draft robotexting order set for an FCC commissioner vote Dec. 13 (see 2311220047). The draft proposes “a so-called ‘One-to-One Consent’ requirement that makes online comparison shopping more difficult, threatening the benefits that consumers receive from…

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the sites,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 21-402: “The Commission does so without citing to any of the evidence LendingTree submitted in comments and replies in this proceeding. And, although the Public Draft acknowledges that comparison shopping sites ‘benefit consumers,’ it does not even cite to the record evidence demonstrating the substantial monetary benefits to consumers, let alone acknowledge that its ‘One-to-One Consent’ requirement threatens those very benefits.”