Is this the end of non-compete contracts?

Well, I didn't see that coming!The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently proposed a regulation banning employers from imposing non-compete "agreements" on their workers.That works for me. I've had to sign non-competes over the years, and I've never liked it one damn bit. Every last one of them overstated what I'd be restricted from doing.Almost all forbade me, as a freelancer, from working for other publishers. For a writer, that's impossible. So I usually write for three to six publicatio