The far right would notice. What you just described was the Deep State. Employees loyal to their position, and do not change behavior based off of politics. They just follow the rules they are given. The far right hates those people; they are difficult to corrupt.

If you want to get information from one point to another, just use email.

Are they naming the unified product Saurons Ring?

Most of my library checkouts are movies.

So long as professionals are making bigger, better, and faster code, and new hardware keeps coming out; drag and drop coding UI's will always fail.

Normally when we hear about these tax dodging schemes it involves a shell company. A legal entity that does nothing. At least with Microsoft and Puerto Rico it does something. All/Most of Microsoft software goes through Puerto Rico as it's last step before being released. Puerto Rico digitally signs the final product.

You don't think that there'd be a feedback loop on how to fix false positives? Software developers are constantly at work. False positives like this are wonderful test cases with which to test their software.

I know, I haven't answered that myself. It's just something that I've pondered over. It doesn't mean that should such a law make it on the books, that the law wouldn't contain guidelines as to what counts for too large. I have been thinking a bit about this the last few months and have some ideas as to what counts as too large. But that's still a minor detail as to the sentiment of the proposal.

The same foundation as anti trust laws.

A lot of the cases aren't creating a monopoly (a big fish buying up a little fish), but they do end up harming consumers in the long run by concentrating too much power. This is different from anti trust because a large company buying up a small company in a different industry doesn't create a monopoly in that other industry. but I feel that it still has negative effects to the general welfare of the citizens of the United States.

I know it wouldn't solve all of the competitive problems, but one thing that could happen when a company gets too large, would be a law that prevents them from buying other companies. That might help here.

Isn't that proof of many poorly authored websites?

Too many websites screw it up anyway. It's so sad to be able to fix a broken website by just changing the UA string.

I don't see why that's true. I've even seen people saying the opposite. People on Slashdot reminiscing about the good old days of the internet, and how they'd sign onto chat boards (or whatever) and lie, lie, lie. And why wouldn't they? It's anonymous. All of this lying they had pent up that they couldn't use in real life now had an outlet. And since all they did was lie, fantasize and troll, they'd assume that everyone else on the internet was doing the same. So for them, the lack of accountability was the place for dishonesty, not honesty.

The people being manipulated refuse to believe they are being manipulated. It's an affront to their minds. This is just going to show the powerful how to operate from here on out.

I disagree. As someone who might be able to do something about a problem, when all I see is a "usability friendly" error message of "something went wrong, sorry", I hate it. That gives me nothing to go off of. I want error codes, because then at least there's a chance for root cause.

It's here because she got fired for retaliating against employees for stuff they talked about on Slack. Some people believe that Slack would somehow make employee communication immune from management oversight.