Sliced? You buy up-market fish sticks. Hoi polloi have to make do with mechanically recovered meat bound with transglutaminase.

Apple Messages isn't social media at all. It competes only with SMS. Same with WhatsApp. I can maybe understand a judge concluding that buying WhatsApp didn't meaningfully stifle competition, because no platform for basic point-to-point communication is ever going to prevent competition by apps that come on your phone (e.g. Messages).

WhatsApp isn't just point-to-point: it has groups, which is how it was able to create its own network effect. And Apple Messages doesn't come on your phone if you have an Android.

What about people with licences from other states? Do they have to stop at a checkpoint on the border and sign their rights away?

Why do people give credit a performer of songs and not the author

Because the Internet is full of lyrics websites which attribute songs to a performer and don't give any information about the lyricist and composer, or even tell you that it was a cover.

Slashdot itself has had a bevy of articles over the years (such as
this) about the harms of social media to developing adolescents.

Is Slashdot part of the propaganda campaign to wipe out digital anonymity?

The data on harms is at least a big chunk of the motivation. Maybe the response to it is a moral panic or maybe the response is proportionate to the evidence. But I think it's going to win out in terms of policy.

If you don't like the proposed solution, I think you better start promoting a better way to implement this kind of intervention that still preserves the protections you care about.

Or people are going to go with the not-better way.

Note that not all of the businesses mentioned are about crypto. Wise is an international transfer service which AIUI works by matching people wanting to transfer in opposite directions and so minimising the actual currency exchange, which allows them to charge very low commissions. It's already registered as a bank in Europe. The application in the US is probably linked to its plan to move from the London Stock Exchange to the New York one, because the UK is less happy with founders having a different class of share which gives them disproportionately more voting power than their stake.

No, Communism is getting the workers to own the means of production. Getting the government to own them is more Stalinist.

TSA is a specifically US agency. Ryanair does not operate in US airspace, much less fly to US airports. EU security checks are focussed on security, with some theatre at times, not looking for thoughtcrime.

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

Available as a database, or a collection of individual pages. Mirrored and archived. There are torrents as well.

While Germany struggled to build 27,000 trucks in 1943, America produced over 560,000 GMC trucks alone.

There are other factors to take into account: for example, the difference in population by a factor of two, or the fact that only one of those two nations was under heavy bombing of its industrial zones at the time.