It's not as crazy as it sounds. The lawyers just wanted someone on the hook to sue if things went sideways. They definitely didn't pay some dude on the internet $500k. They paid some other company to assume the risk of defects/vulnerabilities/shutdowns due to Perl.

Your tone implies that you think this is a bad thing, but I think you're making a good point about limitation being important in a platform. Limitations are part of what makes art interesting, so it makes sense that adding in artificial limitations would make content creation & sharing platforms more compelling.

EU bans on US beef are because of widespread use of antibiotics and GMO corn as feed.

Trump forcing TikTok into US ownership is extremely dangerous brinksmanship. What if China responds by saying Microsoft has to become Chinese-owned if they want to sell their products inside China?

If you're marching along with people chanting "Jews will not replace us", you're not a "very fine person", I don't care if you don't actually identify as a Neo-nazi or White nationalist.

Uhh, Twitter is most definitely the King of Twitter.

The market is deciding. Twitter is a public company on the market, and they've decided this is misinformation and want to prevent its spread.

It's not Twitter's fault that the person spreading misinformation in this case is a politician's son.

No, they don't. If Twitter wants to be far-left and only allow liberal politicians, they certainly can do so.

Also, you don't see Nancy Pelosi promoting unproven drug treatments or telling people not to wear masks. So there's a difference. Even if you don't want to see it.

Uhh if the State is returning your tax dollars so you can pay for a private school, they better also return those same tax dollars to those of us who don't have kids so we can do what we want with them.

I don't care if you want to send your kids to private school, but I'm not paying for it.

If you're going to have a carbon tax, you also need to have it on imports or it's going to result in the situation you describe - companies just offshore their high-carbon production. That's a flaw in implementation, not in the idea that carbon emissions should have some cost.

It's not security, it's just a public record of everything that happens on the streets of the neighborhood.

I get where you're going, but that's a terrible example. The crime there is in the blackmail, not the video recording. If a company wanted to get blackmail video they could just hire a private investigator. This likely would be harder than that, since there would likely be some record of accessing the footage.

Can we all just agree that COVID-19 is bad, but that we also should find a way to safely open the economy?

Or maybe the public health interventions worked?

The US and SK identified their first case on the same day. So you're right, that can't be it.

The bungling of testing in the USA, especially early on, is the obvious culprit.

This is obviously not true. We have "solved" many viruses, even ones we haven't found a vaccine for. What is this defeatist garbage, "nothing you can do about it"?