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Comment Re:It'd be interesting to see (Score 1) 108

Problem being that overwhelming majority of people hold the completely opposite view from you on targeted advertising being "destructive behaviour to society".

Heck, I'm in the "always find the settings to turn targeted advertising off", and even I disagree with you.

The goal of legislation is not to stop targeted advertising. It's to regulate the worst excesses of it, while specifically allowing it. Society doesn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Comment Re:Privacy is a human right; it's not for sale (Score 1) 108

Incorrect. Almost all rights can be willingly traded for. Including all rights you list. In fact, you manage to list only one of a handful of very narrowly targeted limits on what cannot be traded away: slavery. You can still perform a lesser trade for your labour that is more limited than slavery, and every human being working on a contract does.
Other examples of trade of rights include:

Right to free association is commonly traded in exclusive clubs and such.

Right to due process of law is commonly traded in arbitration.

Even right to life is completely up to the holder. You are free to trade your life to rescue someone else.

Comment Re:Virtual AI Trump Simulator by Musk on X (Score 1) 45

More likely his body is a fake and the conspiracy nuts will leave clues on 8chan as to where he really is. Years of sightings, raiding basements of pizza shops for black ops prisons etc. tourist traps where his ghost haunts...

Most of all, con men trying to win over his fanbases' support claiming Trump's blessing replacing the exploitation of Reagan we've had for 30 years.

Comment I'm fine with renewal for now (Score 1) 45

FISA has always been severely flawed but do you really want to "reform" it with arguably the worst House in US history? Plus a racist and unconstitutional filibuster in the Senate?
Until we get Rank Voting and toss out all the Republicans (wholly corrupt, any half decent ones were pushed out... or cowards who bend over when it matters.)

Comment Re:Racket notwithstanding, would you trust Faceboo (Score 1) 108

Notably there already are limits on what it can do with information it collects. For example, the deal it struck with EU regulators that allowed it to buy Whatsapp ban if from fusing databases from Whatsapp and the rest of Meta services for purposes of targeted advertising.

It's why residents of EU nations still have their Whatsapp data siloed off within Meta.

Comment Re:It'd be interesting to see (Score 2) 108

Why would anyone want to pay to advertise to people who overwhelmingly aren't interested in their ads, instead of paying someone else where they know ads are targeted at people who would be interested?

This is the very reason why "general advertising" is shrinking every year, while targeted advertising is growing. Ad buyers don't want the former, they want the latter.

Comment Re:Apple (Score 1, Insightful) 96

It already did. If you want a subsidiary in PRC, you need to take on local investors. Until recently, these investors were required to have a majority stake for most industries, though large players can go 50/50. This was changed very recently in the wake of the economic clusterfuck that is PRC's investment market today. That's why if you go look at for example foreign cars in China, they're not called "foreign brand". They're called "local brand - foreign brand". For example, there's no Ford in China.

But there is Changan Ford.

And this isn't just about US companies. There's no Toyota either. But there's GAC Toyota.

And this was the case for decades. You know how even the most hysterical anti-Trumpers would go "yeah he's Hitler, but he mostly has it right on China?" This is one of the things they referred to.

Comment Re:Will this actually happen? (Score 1) 37

YUP. This took like 70? years to finally have this get done... after like a decade after a long court case and massively huge study proving this shit is bad. It'll be maybe 100 years before it finally is all over with and the chemicals will continue to be everywhere.

Stupid voters keep choosing the enablers who take their anger and redirect it at the politicians who are trying to make the system work faster. Republican has become a synonym for fool. We really need to start sticking it to the stupid people who are way too confident in their ignorance and stupidity.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 258

Being a workplace is a norm at... a workplace. You're not supposed to "become" a machine like corporate office. You're supposed to "start" and "remain" that when it comes to office work. Because that's what a productive office looks like.

Google's problem is that they haven't hired people to work in a long time. Instead they hired for racial and sexual quotas and then selected from those candidates for with very specific extreme political opinions. And so they got exactly what they hired. Disruptive revolutionary activism based on popular racial supremacist opinions held within that political class they focused on maximally hiring.

Fuck around, find out. Google found out. The fact that you need to tell adults that workplace is for working is just a hilarious cherry on top of a cake of idiocy.

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