The Fed's hands need to be slapped and slapped hard.

Great, but slapping someone else (e.g. Google) for what someone else (ISIS dudes) said, does not help slap the feds at all.

Watch your aim. Slap the feds, not unrelated parties. Make NSLs illegal so that when the feds try to change what a website says (or silence it), not only do they lack the power to compel webmasters, but their attempt can be lawfully exposed.

These companies having this power then open up foreign countries to get in and push agendas...that often are not in our (US) best interest.

Yes, and your website should be able to push whatever agenda you want, too, regardless of whether or not it's what the US Government du jour happens to want. Even Americans can't agree with one another about what our best interests are. See this discussion right here, my fellow American.

Indeed, given how many foreign websites we use, that's a neat check on our government. And every other government. We basically need all the governments of the world to unite behind a single agenda in The Ultimate Grand Conspiracy, in order for things to go badly. We are finally beating them (except for the risk of having to spend money on lawyers, like what happened to Google in this case).

Look at Twitter. It went to shit, so people left. Problem solved. And Facebook is only for old people (though I'm not sure how it compares to Slashdot). Some day, TikTok will be the next MySpace. None of them matter, except for the value they give us in contradicting all the other ones.

The last 20 years have made censorship much harder than it ever was before. We're at maximum freedom compared to any other moment in history. I think that's great.

You must set your community to 18+ if your community's content will primarily be not safe for work (NSFW),

But people who are 18+ (though under 70) are at the highest risk of having a workplace where the data is unsafe. Conversely, people under 18 are less likely to have a job (though people 70+ enjoy similar status), so there's no workplace in which the data will pose a safety concern. Your policy is backwards!

I think we can all agree that this is very disrespectful to people who are just trying to do their jobs and get through their shitty day, and in an ideal world, people should be able to communicate freely without childish sabotage, and that despite all this, what happened is absolutely hilarious and we all hope it happens many more times.

I know a lot of you people are friends with Kevin Bacon, so the next time you're talking to him or one of his friends, let him know we're counting on his good behavior.

My prediction: Five years from now there will be a massive glut in semiconductors.

When you get down to it, that's the goal. The government doesn't have the national security policy that it wants, until it can shop in a glutted domestic market.

The missile could blow up on the launchpad, explains Wellerstein. No one wants to clean that mess up.

So do it in a place where they only have poor people, so you don't have to clean it up. Geez, do I have to think of everything for you?

If I go to a news site today, more than 50% of my screenspace are ads

What's your problem with uBlock Origin?

I think that anyone who still sees ads, wants to see ads. Otherwise, why would they keep loading them?

These peoples' sense of entitlement would be amazing and hilarious, if their completely frivolous lawsuits weren't such a serious and expensive menace.

"I don't like how your BBS that I get to use, happens to work. You owe me that it works in accordance with my vision. Your business computer is supposed to be working as an integral part of my business. And fuck no, I'm not paying you. WTF do you think I am, a customer?! And BTW, you should be liable for what I do on your computer, so rEpEaL sEcTiOn 230!"

That these communists trade in private property, is the cherry on top.

It's easy to miss, until you consider this question: How many websites exist in the world?

If you answered 1 (and facebook is The website's name) then it will continue to elude you. So what if the only website in the world (which everyone hates) can't link to other websites anymore?! Who cares?

If you keep thinking about the question, though, and suddenly come up with a total-number-of-websites sum greater than 1, then the downside may leap out at you. You might find yourself asking, "Hey, waitaminute. What if I have a website and I want my website to link to a page on someone else's?"

What if I don't like the subscriptions, the price of the equipment is already in the price of my car, and I want the equipment?

It sounds like you're contemplating buying the wrong car. Why not move along and look at something better?

I hear a covid vaccine commercial on the radio about twice a week these days.

Beware: radio has been implicated as a possible vector in the spread of advertising.

I'd give you an upvote, but apparently those aren't available to me.