Some sort of department of consumer protection? https://www.usa.gov/state-consumer

Giving those agencies resources and teeth to successfully prosecute is another thing.

Are you in the US?

If so, it's the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Trump ofc tried to replace the commissioners who lead the Bureau. The courts stopped him, at least temporarily, TBH I've lost track of that one. And now he's trying to use the Bureau to go after gender-affirming care. I assume it's something transphobic like, since he believes transgenderism is made up, care to help a person transition would be "fraudulent".

The FTC has a Bureau of Consumer Protection which is supposed to do that (not to be confused with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which focuses on banking.)

As others have pointed out, we have agencies to do exactly that, but people voted decisively against them this past election

It's called a consumer market authority

Conservatives would hate it so it's probably a good idea

I'd go a step further and say it should apply to digital products too.

Every mobile ad that goes to a product that the ad misrepresents.

Every mobile ad that won't close when you click "x".

Every website that loads bogus malware and scareware ads. "YOUR PHONE IS INFECTED!!!"

The mobile space is, if anything, worse than meatspace for fakery and bullshit.

My pessimistic prediction is that it would be toothless, underfunded, and hamstrung by red tape and loopholes. The rules would probably be written by the same corporations this agency is supposed to monitor.

I’d be in favor of an aggressive, well-funded, and powerful version of this agency, though!

Im going to look through and see if anyone is against this because um. I can't see why.