Comment Re:Weirdly specific (Score 1) 108
Triggered low intelligence china troll is the best china troll.
But you need to go harder.
Triggered low intelligence china troll is the best china troll.
But you need to go harder.
It's still not paid for. And likely never will be. But you can buy a premium account with perks.
Which is a model taken straight from free to play games, that have been doing this for more than a decade. And a model everyone in social media is desperate to copy in some way after twitter demonstrated just how successful that model can be.
It's actually really weird in the way it's interpreted. There was a recent case here in Finland, where a very popular consumer electronics store got fined for a very large sum of money (percentage of yearly revenue that is higher than their yearly profit margin) by a regulator on the basis that they allowed anonymous purchases, but held the data from the purchase beyond immediate fulfilling of the purchase contract.
The store allowed the buyer to get the data, request data deletion, etc. Holding the data was explained by the fact that purchase created a need to also meet requirements of warranty, both legally mandated and manufacturer's, as well as ability for the non-registered purchaser to register and get access to their old purchases list.
Regulator fined them anyway, and according to "severe violation" rules in spite of it. Because it required additional work that wasn't immediately obvious to get the store to delete the data and violation being long standing (in spite of store clearly believing in good faith that they were following the law, and actively helping with the regulator's investigation).
It actually screwed a lot of legitimate customers like myself, because we rely on the store to hold our order data for as long as possible, so we can go back and review, check warranty status, check dates of purchase etc. Now separate action is required to go there and check a box "to hold the data for more than absolutely necessary" as a result of this ruling.
Truly for a communist, stupidity and delusion are indistinguishable. You're so close to the reality here. Your mind, desperately struggling to get out from under the Marxist yoke you enslaved it under generates a sane observation:
"It never happens".
And then you dismiss it anyway in favour of engaging in the most common action of a religious fanatic. Attacking the heretic.
Your stupidity generates a lot of confusion. For example here, I demonstrated YOU to be the meme. And your delusion made you think it was the opposite.
Problem being that overwhelming majority of people hold the completely opposite view from you on targeted advertising being "destructive behaviour to society".
Heck, I'm in the "always find the settings to turn targeted advertising off", and even I disagree with you.
The goal of legislation is not to stop targeted advertising. It's to regulate the worst excesses of it, while specifically allowing it. Society doesn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Incorrect. Almost all rights can be willingly traded for. Including all rights you list. In fact, you manage to list only one of a handful of very narrowly targeted limits on what cannot be traded away: slavery. You can still perform a lesser trade for your labour that is more limited than slavery, and every human being working on a contract does.
Other examples of trade of rights include:
Right to free association is commonly traded in exclusive clubs and such.
Right to due process of law is commonly traded in arbitration.
Even right to life is completely up to the holder. You are free to trade your life to rescue someone else.
I love how you're the meme of a communist to the point where you're literally jumping through multiple steps in the process straight to the end point of a typical far left narrative pusher.
"They're not going it".
"Yes they're doing it and here's the evidence".
"They're doing it, and it's a good thing!"
You're a victim of your own propaganda bubble as usual. Paid accounts haven't just been implemented, they have been a resounding success on X.
Because world isn't black and white, and not all accounts are made equal either.
There's a clear exemption in relevant regulation for this sort of a transaction. It requires specific limitations on data usage to be reserved solely for facilitating the service that is being paid for.
Yes, but Facebook's deal is "your privacy for our services". The entire purpose of many inherent rights is that they allow you to have something that is valuable to trade it for something else that is valuable.
For example, the entire concept of right to property is based around that.
Notably there already are limits on what it can do with information it collects. For example, the deal it struck with EU regulators that allowed it to buy Whatsapp ban if from fusing databases from Whatsapp and the rest of Meta services for purposes of targeted advertising.
It's why residents of EU nations still have their Whatsapp data siloed off within Meta.
Why would anyone want to pay to advertise to people who overwhelmingly aren't interested in their ads, instead of paying someone else where they know ads are targeted at people who would be interested?
This is the very reason why "general advertising" is shrinking every year, while targeted advertising is growing. Ad buyers don't want the former, they want the latter.
It already did. If you want a subsidiary in PRC, you need to take on local investors. Until recently, these investors were required to have a majority stake for most industries, though large players can go 50/50. This was changed very recently in the wake of the economic clusterfuck that is PRC's investment market today. That's why if you go look at for example foreign cars in China, they're not called "foreign brand". They're called "local brand - foreign brand". For example, there's no Ford in China.
But there is Changan Ford.
And this isn't just about US companies. There's no Toyota either. But there's GAC Toyota.
And this was the case for decades. You know how even the most hysterical anti-Trumpers would go "yeah he's Hitler, but he mostly has it right on China?" This is one of the things they referred to.
PRC banned tiktok long ago. So by your logic, China.
You really need to work on your well poisoning skills.
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