The Microsoft account is the entire point, which is also where TPM 2.0 comes in. Locking internet services behind Microsoft authentication schemes was always the plan, dating all the way back to the original .Net vision with Passport.Net (what was that, 2001ish?).

I like the part where they think forcing the rich to liquidate their paper holdings to pay a wealth tax is suddenly going to lead to actual wealth for anybody. Nothing new is created in the process except for government issued paper and we've all certainly felt the effects of that in the last few years. F*cking market cap, how does it work?

Literally the only reason I ended up settling on Amazon devices is the ability to side-load Android apps. The ability to run Kodi and RetroArch on my FireTV is a huge value-add, otherwise I can't think of any reason to allow Amazon into my home.

Of course there is: plugin electric hybrids. And if the EV-only people were remotely reasonable, they'd be doing everything in their power to get people into them NOW while the charging infrastructure is built up and the poor performance of Lithium batteries in cold environments is properly addressed. Additionally, that "waste" heat generated by ICE engines is a huge asset in most of the world and heat generation from batteries is hugely inefficient. Not everyone lives in a Mediterranean, Californian coastal environmental.

Fair enough but would you care to elaborate on which of his stated positions (or actions, for that matter) actually deviate further to the right of early-to-mid 90s Democrats? Enlighten me in my gross naivete.

Also, where does supporting NAFTA/essentially unrestricted free trade fall on the left-right spectrum?

Ridiculous take. Trump 2016 was a run-of-the-mill Democrat from the early to mid-90s. Biden 1988 was WAY far to the right of Trump 2016.

Did you come up with that retarded opinion all by yourself?

Ok, I'll be sure to let the boys know at the next rally. They're going to be pretty surprised about my sudden lack of sincerity though.

I personally have an "exit only" policy for my anus. I imagine some day I'll have to relax that a bit for cancer-screening colonoscopies but for the time-being, I'm good.

Did you know the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to David B. Busch and James R. Starling for their 1986 research report, "Rectal foreign bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World’s Literature"? You can read the abstract here. Be careful out there!

Why speculate? Give it a shot and let us know.

Assuming you're not a troll, the fact that you could consider my position to be anything less than 100% sincere means you need to take a hard look at your own values. That is, if you have any to begin with.

Sorry you got modded down. Reminding hypocrites that they are acting hypocritically never goes well. It brings about the very painful feeling of cognitive dissonance that they cannot handle.

My move? My move is that the enormous tech companies that are acting as the public square actually act in the interest of the public. That's what I want. That's it. I don't want them censoring anybody. Baring that, if they can't do it because their values are not consistent with those of the America, they can have all of their public funding cut off. They might hate American values but they certainly love American tax dollars. And no, to be clear, I don't actually want the government to do that either.

Go ahead, admit it, you love censorship in the world... just so long as you're the one doing the censoring. You don't actually care about virtue, only beating "the other side." If you did, you too would be calling on these companies to act in the interest of everyone. But you don't. Are your ideals so weak that they can't stand up to criticism?

I'm not ignoring anything. It's wrong when the Left does it, it's wrong when the Right does it. Your shitty behavior isn't justified by other's shitty behavior. Be the better person/company.

Before 2014 or so, I generally believed the average American and, by extension, the average American corporation, was essentially on board with the basic tenants of the Marketplace of Ideas. And, who knows, maybe they actually were and it all changed. The left used to carry "Free Speech" signs after all.

I would have never guessed I could be so wrong. Even in this very thread, we see someone calling for the IRS to destroy Rumble. Given the Obama administration IRS scandal, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they did. It's a sad world we live in.

This is true. If these people had the correct opinions in the first place, we wouldn't have to deplatform them.