Kids are smart and can easily find workarounds

When I buy shit from Amazon, does Amazon also charge me for the increased infrastructure expenses required to deliver the stuff to me? Warehouses, drivers, trucks, all that?

No, of course not, that's something they figure into the price in the first place.

I have no idea what it is

They should rename it Bysshe.

It would probably be better to actually spend all those unused mod points as you have them to mod posts up, even if it is just for moderately good posts.

Letting them expire just increases the impact of each individual troll mod point.

I would wager the political environment is more friendly in Dallas.

Oh and if you are referring to the personal data clauses you might want to double check the definition of personal data in the GDPR.

Which part, right to be forgotten is very different from right to not have people look at what you post publicly.

What is the point of comparing a Japanese lab's exotic trunking speed to the USA's "average home" speeds?

Does Japan plan to install this exotic 19-core fiber into their homes? Of course not.

Attempting to prevent them from acquiring tech is futile and counterproductive
Politicians like to see everything as a race
Warmongers and defense contractors see everything as a threat that requires more military spending
Cooperation would be a better strategy

It doesn't matter. We have an attitude of capital worship in this country; whoever has the money is entitled to do whatever they want, and people will support any decision they make.

You're from Estonia, AC?

Lots of people who travel abroad use a VPN service because various corporate sites are geoblocking countries for various b2b and other small scale portals. I see this pretty regularly.

Lots of people who travel abroad use a VPN service for some peace of mind in sketchy internet cafes etc. It ensures you are using a known DNS provider, all your non-encrypted traffic is opaque, and you can use 'nearby' endpoints so aren't running packets around the globe.

Another significant use for VPNs is to route around censorship blocks. And log-less VPN services can be used to drop leaks to journalists and stuff... assuming you trust the vpn service.

Some people just want to confound potential tracking and profiling by their local ISP... in exchange for potential tracking and profiling by their VPN service... but maybe they know the ISP is selling their data, and they trust their VPN isn't.

...for Apple to be doing AI research

Social media is relatively new, and many people haven't develop[ed immunity
As the extent of lying and manipulation becomes more and more obvious, hopefully people will develop a bit more skepticism

Well, billions of ignorant people in Africa and Asia did not get the Covid vaccines and did not die.