the first amendment prohibits compelled speech. OS's are written in languages. Requiring age verification is compelled speech. Acting like this is hard to solve is some kind of media scam.
i remember just before the dot com crash there was this company whose value shot up. The company had the brilliant idea of putting ads on screen savers. Well, the screen saver only goes on when the person leaves so no one it looking at a screen. Anyway the dot com crash happened about six months after I noticed that.
I agree. i could find anything worth watching last night so I watched the Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart. It was great! He has great lines like: "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it".
in real capitalism badly managed companies go bankrupt. that is how its supposed to work. if the government supports badly managed companies then they continue to be badly managed.
in large companies the ambitious out compete the competent for control. when they have power they don't know what do to. i think this happens because the competent spend their time doing their job and getting shit done. I am not sure what the ambitious do but whatever it is impresses management.
there is a secret system of "laws" called the rules based order which require login information get sent to government servers in the US. they can then decide if they want to users to be banned from accessing the services of any company that does any business in the US.
they cannot say we are laying people off because sales are dropping because of the recession then the stock price will fall. Instead they say AI is so great we are replacing people with AI so you should invest more with us.