Key part of demoralization of a nation is making people ashamed of it.

Damn, they listened to him during Obama's tenure?

He really is the Immortal Emperor in your minds.

On the one hand, yes, there's no good way to regulate technology which is only used in a very limited number of vehicles. It would have to be more like spaceflight where it's regulated based on what damage it could do to third parties and not the staff and crew.

On the other hand they could have just called up James Cameron and the submersible engineers he knows, asked them if it was safe and waited for the laughter to stop before refusing to let it operate from Canada.

It seems that everyone involved in operating deep-sea submersibles knew it was a disaster waiting to happen but there was nothing they could do to stop it as no-one cared about their opinions.

Fact check actually said "it was a crocodile enclosure". It was so stupid, it short circuited my brain when typing it out.

Also headlines are epic, going along the lines of "child ended up in the croc cage". How? No one knows, but they arrested "a man". What kind of man? No one knows, but he's not a straight white one, because that would've been all over the news.

Best part is that now there's reporting that this mystery man was so mentally retarded, they couldn't interview him. So they released him on bail until september. Guess there's more kid chucking coming up.

Just kidding. This nonsense made it to X, so they're probably going to have to arrest the poor bastard before he gets to try to see if he can chuck the next one into a lion enclosure, and then get fact checked that it's actually a tiger enclosure.

Ah yes, my favorite kind of a fact check Reminds me of the current story about immigrant who chucked a random 3 year old kid into the alligator cage with obvious consequences.

Then we get Fact check false. It was actually an alligator cage.

Same energy as this "debunk".

Ask your favorite LLM for a list of ROK tech that was cloned by PRC manufacturers as a result of industrial espionage.

Bigger problem here is safetyism combined with Haidt's crusade against social media. He was told early on that his work would be repurposed by "save the children from Satan/faggots/fascists/pedos" for something he specifically stated wasn't his goal. He went through with it anyway.

The entire point of Section 230 is that they don't act as publishers, but as mere platforms, which enables social media to exist at all.

"We" meaning pearl clutchers of all persuasions could always just sue the person who actually publishes speech they don't agree with. Which they often did. It just meant that you could not hope to blackmail corporations into banning speech "we" didn't like.

Yes, I'm sure companies that banned Trump while he was a sitting president from all social media all at once could just "bribe" Trump.

There's totally no bad blood there that would get in the way, even if Trump was as for sale as his opponents hallucinate him to be.

What is the number of lawsuits won by non-transgender children who have been convinced by members of multiple respectable organizations to transition?

Last I checked, it was quite a few. It's so popular now that there are projects popping up to help connect such people with attorneys, as medical malpractice attorneys didn't yet have the time to specialize in this specific line of lawsuits.

As lawyer specialization occurs, you can expect the numbers to go up massively, as significant portion of "transitioning" was grooming of autistic and homosexual children.

At this point, it seems that they don't even bother. Prosecutor responsible for releasing thousands of the pakistani child rapists with nothing but warning letters (I'm not even joking, this actually happened) is currently the Prime Minister of UK. Literally the highest political post in the land.

There's no need to hide complicity. It's a badge of honor at this point. It shows that you're in the club.

Gotta say, leftists protesting in favor of keeping national monuments in an ugly, dilapidated state has been a bit of a revelation. Even to those of us who have a pretty good grasp on what wokeness does to a human mind.

I guess we just didn't expect the rot to have reached "you are not allowed to have any national symbols, because those make people more proud of their nations, and that's fascism"-stage of wokeness among more than a handful of terminal cases in universities.

I suppose after toppling of statues of national heroes and symbols, this should've been expected as the next stage. After all, it was them who allowed monuments to fall into dilapidated state in the first place.

When it comes to SK Telecom, US natsec bureaucracy probably has classified data, but going by the public records, I recall them having a major data leak scandal in recent years.

But much more worrisome from US perspective is the general history of PRC penetration of all major ROK conglomerates. It's how a lot of Korean tech got leaked to PRC, and this isn't rumors. There are many criminal convictions of Korean nationals for this specific kind of criminality. So when those companies can't protect key tech of their own from Chinese efforts, it does raise serious questions about granting them direct access to yours.

Oh look, a leftist lying like they breath once again.

None of this matters in court of law. What matters in court of law is what is written in the contract, what is written into law, and what is the precedent in similar cases.

"We signed the contract and other party to it followed the terms, but we need to take pecuniary losses to meet our contractual obligations today, so we want to renege on our obligations" normally leads to "cool story bro, you're ordered to follow the contract" in court.