Yes. Lets hope not too rough (as in WW3 or the like), but yes. It had to happen. And it will be be ultimately a good thing.

While certainly historically accurate, do you think the MAGAs can be really reached that way? They seem so deeply stuck in their made-up parallel universe that nothing can shake their deep and entirely baseless conviction that they are right.

Must have been a long, long time ago ...

Ah yes, I definitely remember that time in 2018 when the FCC threatened ABC's broadcasting license in order to get rid of Barr; both sides, both sides!

Realistically, what will matter is what currently-clean-on-opset Pete will do to organizations(likely with Brendan Carr's slimy assistance). If they think that just doing journalist-level is going to work there's not much reason to just designate someone who can stay awake while holding a tape recorder to go collect the party line while everyone else skips the event. It's not like they are going to answer any but the most softball questions.

If anything, unless there's someone significantly smarter than Pete moderating the policy behind the scenes, this seems less likely to encourage compliance than the traditional measures; where you dole out little nibbles of exclusive and technically unauthorized 'access' to people you deem largely friendly precisely because the stuff at press conferences and releases is pure commodity(especially now that chatbots can, badly, munge it into other formats so there probably isn't even much future in rewriting or reading from the teleprompter those commodity releases).

Not arguing here, but is there reliable information about the salaries of H1-B and L1 compared to residents and citizens? All my coworkers are immigration visa - India and China. I assume we are paid salary commensurate with title and salary band (i.e., staff engineer might have 2-3 tranches of salary range).

I've always wondered if it's true or not that the mostly Indian workforce in US is paid way below.

Why don't you ask them? Discussing salary with your coworkers is a protected right (your boss cannot fire you) under the labor code for now.

Being open about salary is the only way you'll discover pay discrepancy. People think they don't want to share because they feel they may be overpaid and discussing will result in a pay cut, but that's also a good way to get a constructive dismissal.

Racism is universally bad. I guess that detail is a bit too complicated for you ...

And on the other hand, said comedian does a far better job than any career politician would have done. Maybe these people are valuable to society?

Like a true MAGA moron, you cannot read and have no clue what the function of a free press is. This "ban" is also applied to unclassified materials and obviously does not cover any illegal activities at all. Because, you know, these are already illegal.

These people have no shame.

Ukraine elected one president! Maybe that's the REAL reason Putin invaded...

Keep hallucinating. What will happen is that some things will simply not be available in the US anymore, and for others you will have to pay through the nose. The tariffs are one reason for that, but the more important one is that the US has grown unreliable (another blithering idiot may well get voted into office after Trump, directly or later) and businesses like that not one bit. They have moved out of countries for that reason alone.

Hence enjoy your delusions while the real changes are still possible to ignore. After that, good luck! You will need it.

Indeed. I work with some people that analyze firmware and software for critical government uses here. Using FOSS makes that analysis massively easier, and placing some of your own devs in there makes it even easier and you get additional benefits.

Two competitors cooperating to dominate a market? Sounds like a trust to me. I'm sure the fact both rely on Chinese goods is just a coincidence.

I'm sure the America-last crowd will disagree, because the agenda here is to lie until every last citizen is unemployed. Let's watch.

Indeed. Corrupting this decision would require a coup now. Also note that the decision was made 5 years ago and MS had ample time. And whatever they tried failed.