AG Letitia James wins $740,000 settlement from online mental health provider Cerebral::Letitia James announced that her office obtained a settlement from an online mental health provider with a complicated cancellation process.

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      11 months ago

      Anyone with difficult to cancel services is trying to scam all customers eventually, like a bad gym or satellite radio. If they have to legally change their service structure, that sounds like an improvement.

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      Ah yes… Making the cancellation process easier for consumers means it must inherently become a worse service.

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        No I really think the person you are replying to means that because they will need to pay this settlement, then the company will have less money to provide the service hence endangering lives…like somehow it’s this person’s fault…

        Won’t anyone think of the corporations! /s

    • Ook the Librarian@lemmy.world
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      If by “the service”, you mean “online mental health providers”, then no, the service will not get worse. Patients will be fine.

      If by “the service”, you mean “Cerebral’s health services”, then yes. They can collapse for all I care.

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      What a weird take. The company was breaking NY law by making cancellation of their service nearly impossible and faking reviews. This settlement forces them to refund people they defrauded and follow the law.

      Are you saying healtchare businesses should be exempt from laws because “service will be worse” if they follow them?

      Why would letting people cancel a subscription service easily “potentially endanger lives?”

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          You didn’t ask a question. You made two statements implying that holding this company accountable for illegal actions, robbing people of money, is harmful.

          Go fuck yourself.

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            No fuck you. Do you work in mental health. ? No. Then fuck off.

            Do you have people killing themselves on the other fucking line ? No

            Fuck off

            I do not condone corporations, I do when loves are put at risk. That I then have to deal with.

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                I wasn’t advocating for the service. I asked who this service put peoples lives at risk. I condone all that you mentioned. It’s obviously a terrible service. However if it kept people alive then the food outweighed the bad.

                These comments these people don’t understand mental health. Or maybe they do. Who’s to say. I contract for mental health charity. Do t even get minimum wage. We aren’t fully trained and have 1 phone line.

                Yet I’ve talked down dozens of people in crisis and one on a roof. Service doesn’t charge and it’s not this corporate bullshit.

                Fuck the CEO and the practice. However if it kept one person all be who otherwise would have died. ? In the any case. Fuck y’all.

                See you next year

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                  I contract for mental health charity. Do t even get minimum wage. We aren’t fully trained and have 1 phone line.

                  That is obscene; people in crisis deserve so much more. THANK YOU for doing what you do. I hope your goodness to others in need finds its way back to you, multiplied, and that your new year gives you all that you have hoped for it.

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                    It’s a charity. Government don’t pay shit. They don’t care.

                    I just keep people from killing themselves. Even then I don’t really do anything. It’s generally very easy because people inherently don’t want to die.

                    They want the suffering to stop. If anything what we do is worse by keeping them alive we solve none of those problems.

                    Also I don’t do much at all. Mostly it’s run by volunteers and I just deal with crisis calls and active suicides.

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          Was just a question

          The useful idiot’s rallying cry!

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                Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

                A useful idiot is a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause—particularly a bad cause originating from a devious, ruthless source—without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically being used by the cause's leaders. Erroneously attributed to Vladimir Lenin, the term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation. Similar terms also exist in other languages.

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      Do you have a better way?