FTC may end amplifier rule! ACTION NEEDED

@millercarbon if that is your opinion could you please explain why it would not be good to have the amplifier rule in place? Or conversely, the positives if the rule was terminated? I'm asking earnestly as I'm not seeing how the rule hurts the industry or doesn't help the industry. 

@winoguy17 same

 Not referencing the rule in particular, just government incompetence in general....

Im crying this is so sad.

@winoguy17 yes. Point taken. Was hoping for a discussion about the rule and not so much a blanket statement that the government is incompetent. While that is a completely different topic I am more interested in what the FCC is going to do with the amplifier act. 

@ebm why does this not matter to a community that obsesses over specs and manufacturer claims? We argue about amp tech and wpc and distortion etc but a policy that can change all that is not important? Could you explain any further why you do not care about this and think this post is laughable?

@jwl244  - The responses you are getting are related to people's skepticism that the government can effectively communicate, monitor, or enforce something like how power output is reported by manufacturers.
While I generally don't trust the government to be effective, I am old enough to remember how things were prior to the regulation and how much BS there was between manufacturer's claims and what you would hear from audio salesmen.
Fast forward to today, and I believe that regulation or not, it would be harder for a manufacturer to bamboozle buyers for any length of time because of the information available from reviewers and owners on the internet.