On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited rule would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel subscriptions. Instead, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has clicked to cancel the rule entirely, leaving us all stuck suspended in the elaborate web of subscription services.

A U.S. appeals court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's “click-to-cancel” rule that would have required companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up.

There’s not a lot that Americans can universally agree on at the moment, but the Federal Trade Commission’s new rules that digital subscriptions should be easy to cancel received broad acclaim. Everyone liked the idea,