I'm not. All temperance movements eventually reach a point where someone comes along and decides they need teeth. If you want examples, look at history.

Okay, your wish has been hypothetically granted - you have a magic button that lets you delete all your information from the credit bureaus. Now, try getting a loan or line of credit and see what happens.

How about telling us which blockchain? Ethereum? TrumpCoin? Some new shitcoin mining rig Barron set up in The White House bathroom? That'd be on-brand.

Monopoly? There's also Equifax and Experian. If anything, credit bureaus make the lending industry more competitive by centralizing the risk management aspect at in independent third party. Without them, you'd end up with a cartel of banks that shared risk information between members and any new competition would be locked out.

Nope, the author of the article is one of those folks who believes the Democratic Party needs to position itself further to the left. Never underestimate the ability of liberals to make perfect the enemy of good. People on the far left complaining about the Democratic Party can often sound indistinguishable from the criticisms of the right.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" passed. Might be time to get over that whole tire particles thing if you're even slightly considering upgrading to an EV, because both the new and used EV credits are going away as part of that.

What is going on right now that the Trump administration might want a distraction from is the drama at the CDC. Something about making America healthy again by letting most people go unvaccinated against Covid. *rolls eyes*

If you're just going to vote for the candidate who is going to step aside and let the oligarchs do whatever they want, you may as well vote Republican. Libertarian voters mostly tend to be in the same circus tent with Republicans, they just can't stomach the freak show.

We did technically pass a law banning it. Trump just ordered the government not to enforce it and... well... yeah, that's awkward.

I'd like to see the proof-of-work mining banned, but only because it's a massive waste of electricity and there are other established methods for securing blockchains that are significantly more efficient.

Other countries have defined it legally, the difference is that here in the USA it's still protected under the 1A. That doesn't prohibit businesses from saying they want nothing to do with companies whose purpose is to disseminate hate speech, however they choose to define it for themselves.

Guardrails certainly are necessary to keep businesses playing fair, but it's not always clear where the lines should be drawn. A few years back, an adult webcam entertainment business was being run out of a home in a neighborhood that's not far from where I live. If you know anything about Florida suburbs, it's actually not the easiest thing to find a home in a community without a fairly restrictive HOA.

My point being, for someone looking to run their adult entertainment businesses out of their home, normal market forces have made that inconvenient at the least, and when the guy took it to court, he lost. The logic there was that if he wanted to continue running his adult webcam house he was free to do so, but he'd need to move to a neighborhood where such activities weren't prohibited by an HOA. The market normalized these restrictive communities and if your business idea runs afoul of that, too bad.

As cliche as it is to say it, if you don't let businesses establish these sort of rules, then you end up with a Facebook feed full of hate speech and neighbors having webcasted hot tub orgies in their back yard at 1 AM every night. There's a place those things in a free society, sure, but they shouldn't be everywhere.

Some legitimate businesses (marijuana dispensaries come to mind) do have to operate under those conditions - they typically accept cash and sometimes cryptocurrency. Illegitimate businesses also somehow manage to find ways to earn profit, so I don't buy for one second that it's impossible to work around. It's just not easy to run a hate speech site, and honestly there's nothing in the 1A that says the government has to proactively take steps regulating various industries to make it easier - just that the government itself is not allowed to be the entity making it difficult.

Not really. We didn't need the internet's clown car and septic tank to save us from UK age checks. The SCOTUS already said our domestic ones are perfectly legal, so they're coming, like it or not. This is more a case of the US government getting an opportunity to say "You don't get to abuse the rights of our citizens, that's our job!"

I doubt it. Even if you pump out a septic tank, soon enough it fills right back up with shit. Seems someone claiming to represent Kiwi Farms has an account on X (Keepin' it real classy there as usual, Musk) and their latest post is about how the Minneapolis shooter was a trans woman. No doubt using that as a justification for their continued persecution of members of the trans community who have absolutely nothing to do with the shooter.

This was actually pretty common during the heyday of iOS jailbreaks that a developer would brag about having a jailbreak they didn't want to release.

I think you mean it's more like a hollow victory, since it isn't requiring the usual age verification. Seriously though, as near as I can tell it's a typical paid adult site where they have the most boring 15-second previews available to watch for free, and everything else requires a credit card (which more-or-less should satisfy an age check requirement law anyway).

For the time being, discussion forums and social media are still exempt from age checks, so there's plenty of porn on Reddit and X. But I'm sure closing that loophole is next on the agenda. The ultimate irony is that all the UK really has to do is cool their heels for a bit and we'll implement our own nearly identical age verification laws here in the US.

If you do something horribly unpopular, there's no God-given right that says you're entitled to earn a profit from it. Heck, even if it's something that seems offensive in only the most childish interpretation of the term, like removing an old man and a wooden barrel from your corporate logo, that's still fair game for that sweet, sweet, free market money to stop flowing your way.

So, how's that whole connect the world via the internet and hope people get over their differences thing been working out?