We Bet You Thought That AI Stood For "Artificial Intelligence"

So you may be aware by now that the FTC does not like trade or professional associations setting rules limiting the way that association members compete, particularly when those rules limit the ability of the members to provide useful and non-deceptive information to consumers. They really do not like it. Since last Spring alone, there have been nearly a half dozen different complaints by the FTC where the FTC describes the allegedly anticompetitive rules (often termed "ethics rules") in association industries as far apart as music teaching, legal support professionals in California, electricians who specialize in commercial lighting and electrical sign installation and maintenance and coaches for ice skating.  And now there is even more evidence that the FTC doesn't like associations setting the rules limiting how its members compete. But this time it has to do with rules limiting the ability of members of an association to do comparative advertising or price based