We already have precedent from India on this, and absolutely nothing happened. People just moved to other alternatives that were somewhat worse than tiktok, but otherwise generally comparable.

ByteDance left India in wake of similar legislation. That is a massive growth market with way more users.

Likely reason is that primary value of ByteDance is their massive recommendation algorithm superiority over everyone else. That is where almost all of their value comes from. Losing almost any single nation's market share pales in comparison to having to sell the algorithm to a foreign entity.

China never had capitalism. It moved from a nationalist pseudo-feudal system to a communist one, which is still in place.

More accurately, they do not want their algorithms copies by alphabet and meta. Youtube and Facebook/Instagram video recommendations are way, WAY worse than tiktok's. It's why tiktok won the short video war.

Youtube is hanging on the long video first mover advantage, where many long form video producers are dependent on higher revenues Youtube can offer. Youtube shorts are a meme for a reason.

>problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together

It used to. But today, games have the same attitude to male heterosexuality that people you hate with such passion have for homosexuality. So the entire structure inverted, and while serving heterosexuals means getting around 99% of the market, making a point not serving them does the opposite.

P.S.

>lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie

That's your projection. Their argument is that it's against commandments of the God. Same as Islam. And no, in spite of the meme of your side being "homosexuality is inherent, heterosexuality is learnt and needs to be unlearned" (notably also found in peer reviewed academic papers in woke social sciences), turns out that instead of becoming gay because you all women have been uglified and masculinized in Western games, instead of going gay heterosexual men just buy them a lot less. Leading to the current crisis in video games industry, where massive projects crash and burn once woke come in and hit every attractive women, including those scanned from attractive models with an uglification demand. We don't even have male and female body/face models any more in fact. It's all "body type A" and "body type B" because of woke, because stating that there are males and females is offensive to them. And and the current ongoing trend is to forcibly fuse male features into female models, because just like you projected above, woke do believe that if you do that, you may give heterosexuals "un-Godlike stiffie" and they become their clients and join alphabet people.

Just because you unplugged the bible from your religious circuit doesn't mean that that circuit doesn't get filled by something else. Something much, much worse. One who hunts monsters beware, for when you gaze into the abyss, abyss gazes back into you. And among destructive religions, top position in genocide, slavery and torture is held by by various Marxist denominations.

Fire risk.

Exceedingly important in last mile of deployment, where consumption can be somewhat unpredictable and you can't rely on the fusing to work properly on each line.

I'm sure it is in your magical world. In real world on the other hand, it's the point from the downvolting to 230V, not to even talk about 110V systems where using anything else would necessitate active cooling of cables in most places with any meaningful demand. Try hooking up a small apartment building with residential voltages and watch the your cute hollow core cable melt and burn under load.

>I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.

This is why I can tell that you do not understanding anything about grids. Your understanding is that of a person for whom electricity comes from a socket, and you pay for it. So your association is that "you pay grid for electricity, because that's what they base the bill on". It's that of a dumb consumer. This is why the accurate stereotype of a typical green is a person who thinks food comes from a supermarket, electricity from a socket and water from a tap. Because you are just that abstracted from what it actually happening.

In reality, grids are logistical companies that sell logistical services. They're fairly similar to rail companies in how they function, as they're also typically natural monopolies. The fact that their billing mechanism typically exists as a function of amount of goods they transfer doesn't make them people who make money selling goods. They don't sell you electricity. They sell you transit services. People who sell you electricity are electricity producers. In many sane nations, including mine they attempt to cure this idiotic misconception you have about grids being ones who sell you electricity by legally mandating separation of bills. Where transmission companies and producers don't just charge you differently, but you can choose who you buy your electricity from based on pricing. And then you pay a fee per unit of kWh transferred to grid company on top of that. Because you're not paying latter for electricity. You pay it for transit services.

Problem seems to be with payment processors. They got utterly subverted by woke in the anglosphere, which led to anglo side of the companies demand global censorship rules.

A lot of Japanese erotica and porn sites have been hit with it lately. Wokes utterly despise anime, because woke despises "male gaze", i.e. normal male sexuality. They actually write about it openly both in their academic papers and their DEI releases. It's why a lot of modern Western art features intentionally uglified models, even when it's a body scan.

But East Asians aren't in the grip of the same problem. And they have a massive audience in anglo countries. It's why manga crushes western comics in sales. It's why anime crushed western cartoons. It's why East Asian games are increasingly crushing Western games.

So that's where subverted payment processors come in. It's very difficult to legislate against art that serves normal healthy male sexuality, doubly so because men are biologically primed to spend resources to satisfy their sexual needs. But what you can do is instead subvert the primary ways of paying for those services, as to maximize friction between suppliers and consumers to artificially depress demand. Pixiv is just one of many sites that's been having problems with Visa and Mastercard lately. There have been several others, some of which openly stopped accepting Visa and Mastercard entirely to keep allowing erotica and porn on their sites for anglo visitors. Because those two payment processors have been utilizing selective enforcement of their opaque porn rules to meet the demands of their internal woke agitators to stop servicing anyone who serves the needs of the grandiose evil that is the "male gaze".

So sites have to choose between continuing to offer that which consumers want, but become unable to use most common global payment processors because of the anglo "safety" teams being utterly unhinged woke lunatics. Or you block the anglo visitors from accessing the stuff that serves the "male gaze" so that the rest of the world's men using Visa and Mastercard can continue to shop there just fine.

Hey it's a story of a robodog with a flamethrower. Going to hell seems to be par the course.

"I'm not making motte and bailey argument because original poster was not me. Nevermind you didn't accuse me of that based on that original poster, but my posts after that. Also let me engage in some more of the same motte and bailey tactics just to demonstrate that I have no plans in engaging in good faith".

I applaud your zeal and commitment to playing your part to the bitter end.

Tell me you don't understand grid management without telling me you don't understand grid management:

>The grid is not made of copper. You thought it was? Copper is for home wiring, if that. Up to that point, it's alumium, bundled with steel on major lines for tensile strength. Does it look like copper to you?

What do you think is the part of the grid that must be overbuilt the most and spent on the most to get the that utopian world in?

That's right. The last mile part. The copper part. That's why I started with it before going to the major transmission lines requirements. Which I notably also posted, but you being utterly in the mix of religious fervour and peak Dunning Kruger didn't even notice.

And no, grid operators don't make money selling power. They make money providing the grid through which power is sold. This is another one of those "Tell me you don't understand grid management without telling me you don't understand grid management" moments. Distinction can be hard to grasp for someone utterly ignorant on the subject, but clear as day for someone who ever worked in the field.

If you actually follow up the countless video channels that document police work, you'll find a common trend of police reports being "what police officer remembered happened" are often wrong on details. Sometimes diametrically opposite of reality, as documented by officer's own body camera footage. Human perception at a time of crisis is a weird thing, and so is what it chooses to put into long term memory and what is forgotten. An issue well documented in psychology and criminology.

Automated speech recognition that generates facts-based report template for the officer to file may actually be a part of a solution to the problem of human condition in relationship to fair policing. As it will serve as a good refresher and reminder of what actually happened.

From a far right perspective Nazis pitied Jews too for being inferior. Just like from your far left perspective, Left pitied Christians.

One really should not throw stones when one lives in a house of glass. So how many genders are there, bigot?

Motte and bailey fallacy spotted. The starting argument was (not made by you but argued for by you):

>We need sodium batteries for grid storage.

When I challenged that specific point, you decided to make a stronger argument than even the person who opened with the claim:

>but batteries now make sense for at least part of the solution

And when challenged on that, you decided to retreat from indefensible position you yourself chose to retreat to a completely different much more defensible motte positions in points 1 and 2, and then making another attempt to push out for the indefensible bailey again in the point 3. 1. being "but there were major revolutions in the past" (true but irrelevant to the point argued), that "other chemistries that are unsuitable for large scale grid deployment for variety of reasons got cheaper" (again true but irrelevant for the point being argued) and finally "they can work, you just need magical engineering and things that don't exist, but I'll claim do anyway because EVs are also magical" (push back out to the bailey with prima facie absurd claims about magical engineering that doesn't exist, but should exist because you said so).

>So it would be good to know how much of this upgrade is really stuff that should be (should have been?) done by now regardless

No. You don't massively overbuild a grid for shits and giggles. That's a massive resource sink, and copper is neither cheap nor environmentally friendly to extract and refine. Not to mention things like transformers, concrete and steel structures needed to keep the wires up and so on.