Facebook is a cancer on society , always way, always will be, that IS their entire business model.

Data Mine the planet, ignore any pretense at morals or ethics, if it makes a profit (after government fines) then it's EFFECTIVELY legal.

The entire company should be declared illegal, against the values of society, shutdown and all funds transferred to the government, in pursuit of environmental or housing benefits.

Refer to all the news articles where Congressmen said to Huawei "it's not that we don't trust your (current) CODE, but that we don't trust China to not force a backdoor at some point in the future"....

Which while technically this is a National Security argument, the same words can be applied to ANY Foreign Country the US of A chooses to not (or no longer) be friends with.

But Seriously, WHY is this even an issue NOW (rather than any time in the previous several decades), because NONE of this is SUDDENLY NEW.

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/01/heres-why-theres-no-us-telecom-giant-huawei/

Not only does Huawei dominate the telecoms market, but there are NO "american" companies which even BEGIN to complete at that level.

Implementing what amounts to Trade Sanctions by thinly disguising them as National Security Concerns is NOT going to change that.

Because VEGANS want to have their meat and eat it too!

Ie they want to have NO MEAT (avoiding guilt over killing animals, avoiding guilt over killing the environment) but want to STILL ENJOY EATING "meat".

Did nobody ever tell them TANSTAAFL?

Did nobody every explain to them what SACRIFICE means? (ie if you want to SAVE THE ANIMALS/PLANET then you'll need to make some SACRIFICES)

But noooooo, they want to FEEL HOLIER THAN THOU..... AND they want to still enjoy all the pleasures of "eating meat".

That'll make life interesting then.

What happens when your country has FULLY embraced Right-Wing Populism (USA, Britain) and THEN war comes along ....

Repeat After Me: THE INTERNET IS MORE THAN JUST HTTP AND HTTPS

Making your BROWSER (yes, one SINGLE application) "understand the internet" COMPLETELY differently to EVERY other application, the entire REST OF YOUR OS, is GOING to FUCK THINGS UP in a STUNNINGLY UNCONTROLLABLE manner.

For the purposes of this EXPERIMENT

Split-view DNS (and related tricks) will continue to work, because your OS is CURRENTLY not pointed at "one of the specified DNS providers"

Once this goes past the realm of an "experiment" and Chrome joins FF in FORCING your browser to use a DIFFERENT DNS than YOUR OS you will find that pretty much the entire internet will be fucked, troubleshooting issues will be ALMOST impossible, and everyone from the CEO to Your Mother is going to think TECH PEOPLE are incompetent.

This is a HORRIBLE PLAN, and it will FUCK EVERYTHING UP.

If we had ANY brains there would be RIOTING IN THE STREETS over this insanity.

Taxi Medallions are pretty much owned by organized crime, that's a well known well documented fact. It'd be HARD to find a more fundamentally corrupt industry. Destroying the taxi industry (as it stands today) would be a net Good For Society.

Sure there's Ordinary People driving cabs, and they would be VICTIMS in such destruction, but after time passes and society deals with the restructuring (ie removal and replacement) of the systemic corruption, the world would be better off.

... is where Republicans are quoted words to the effect of "Good! President needs to surround himself with yes-men."

I would argue that for THIS president especially, "frequently DISagrees with the president" is WAY better than "he's just a yes man".

See previous ACTUALLY HAPPENED: President wants to NUKE HURRICANES OVER AMERICAN SOIL

Either way the current situation is UN-FUCKING-FORGIVEABLE.

The POINT of "background checks for purchasing firearms" is not Governments are Asssholes , but rather "some people REALLY (seriously, REALLY REALLY) should not have access to firearms".

This is one of those cases where "applies to BUSINESS but not PRIVATE" is just batshit insane.

Basically you're saying after some hate-filled rat bastard with poor impulse control RIGHTFULLY is refused a gun, they can find themselves a private sale and FURNISH THEIR WILDEST DESIRES , especially now that they are DOUBLY PISSED OFF FOR BEING REFUSED A GUN.

Yeh THAT seems like A SMART MOVE to me.....what could possibly go wrong?

So you're a fan of Might==Right?

If the fine is SO INSIGNIFICANT that the stock goes UP (significantly) after they've been given a slap on the wrist, EXACTLY what penalty have they suffered?

Sure I agree with your point about NOT DESTROYING the company. BUT when the fine is LESS THAN ONE ANNUAL-QUARTER OF PROFIT I absolutely guarantee you the message being sent is "Nobody cares, do whatever you want"

TWSS of the day ....

A large part of the difference between "sugardaddy" and "customer of a prostitute" pretty much IS how willing the "payee" is to walk away from your advances and tell you to GO FUCK YOURSELF.

Seriously folks, to be a successful sugardaddy all you really need is a large bucket of money, and to be a pleasant human being and a reasonable person.

TL/DR; ..... Some philosophy student decided to write his doctoral thesis on how easily it is to spout meaningless bullshit and convince people to attach "real world meaning" to it.

He/She/Ve/Ze/It is writing an app (I'm sure there's gonna be MONEY TO BE PAID somewhere), because adding injury to insult is only lathering loads of cream on a cake that has already been glazed like a cheap donut.

Meanwhile incompetent journalists with NOTHING TO REPORT ON are spewing articles about how "AMAAAAAAZING" this rubbish is, and crossposting their articles to navel-gazing echo-chambers like Slashdot.

The world/this planet is a weird and wonderful place, go somewhere and LOOK, you don't need some "movement" on Reddit and some philosophical bullshit backed by an app to find out for yourself.

I have AT&T Fiber

- The 100Mbps service has a data limit

- The 1Gbps speed has no data limit

- The price INCREASE for the 1Gbps (unlimited data) service is the same as adding the UNLIMITED feature on top of the LIMITED 100Mbps service

In THIS universe, paying for the unlimited upgrade and getting access to TEN TIMES THE SPEED certainly counts as WORTH IT.

And before you bitch-n-moan "you will never use that bandwidth" ... Sure the chances of me using all 1Gbps "just browsing the web" is effectively zero.

BUT I regularly download at 350Mbps on my laptop over Wifi (single stream, older wifi) .. for the record, on the wire I consistently get over 850Mbps in both directions from fast.com

AND I also have access to More UPLOAD speed than I will realistically use (say hello to large backups "in the cloud").

The price is NICE, and the only way to get LOTS and LOTS of upload bandwidth is to pay for download bandwidth on a symmetric service.

WSJ are demonstrably a bunch of morons writing pure clickbait articles.