> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store

Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.

That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.

This is called "illegal tying" in the law.

They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.

When did East Germany win?

I've heard people say, "well kids can get accounts elsewhere and view porn." Look, you have to lead by example. If you're a parent and don't want your kids watching porn, you get a router that does some blocking. It won't get all of it, but you don't allow yourself a bypass either. Explain to you kids, "I know porn is tempting. I think it's wrong and I know it's wrong and try not to watch it." Yes they can still watch it if they want to, but you've let your values be known and they will either share them or dismiss them.

If you don't have any moral issues with porn, well then it really doesn't matter and let you're kids do whatever .. or whatever place in the middle you stand; you explain that to your kids.

But it should be the PARENTS who control that, not big daddy government. Don't outsource your responsibilities as parents.

Reddit is a cesspool of propaganda, authoritarianism, groupthink and, now, tons of LLM bots. It lost any credibility it had a decade ago. Still, I am very against these types of laws. In the UK, they have destroyed all small sites and forums. They are not about protecting children and teens. Is social media bad for teens? It's BAD FOR ADULTS! The algorithmic ranking system is always a massive danger and social media in-general gives people a false sense of relevance.

Small fourms, boards and things like ActivityPub (Pleroma/Mastodon) which allow the standard reverse chronological are still massive time-wasters, but they're nowhere near as bad as Facebook/Xitter/Insta (FB was funded by Peter Thiel and went online the day after DARPA shut down Digital LifeLog. Purely a coincidence I'm sure).

I'm glad Reddit is saying something about this, but they're not the ones with the moral high ground to even run such a campaign. Still, it affects every smaller site forum and startup that accepts user generated submissions. If you want to know about how bad Reddit is, I wrote this a few years back:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

It looks like this is a "Man in the middle" attack in one way or another. Try to access your bank from another place and computer. Consumer routers are known to be hacked easily, and turn off UPnP in the router since that's a security hole the size of Grand Canyon.

If your bank don't do Multi-Factor Authentication you shall leave asap for another more secure bank.

A login and password might have been enough in the 1970's.

It's over.

You can use Pleroma, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube or any number of softwares to connect to the ActivyPub social network (known as the Fediverse). I use Pleroma myself and I like it. It's all chronological, none of that algorithm shit. Truth Social and Gab both use Mastodon code, but turned off federation. Minds is not open source, but they implemented ActivityPub so you can communicate with people on there from Mastadon/Pleroma. The censorship is still a problem, and I did a study on it, but I still prefer it to the big social networks: https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

Then you don't have a nation. The older libertarian self might have agreed with you a long time ago. But we can clearly see the push to just shove people across borders in the US and EU is not from libertarian ideals, but rather a push towards cultural breakdown so governments can step in and implement authoritarian control. You have to have some shared culture and borders to be a nation today. You get rid of those and your civilization tends to evaporate. What it gets replaced with is almost always more authoritarian.

> Let them in, evaluate their situation

This never happens. This is never intended to happen. That's the point of the system under both Biden and Trump. They were always meant to be turned into permanent residents. If you can't see that for what it is; how they had the same end goals with different social advertising to get people outraged as they're perusing the same policy, then I can't help you.

My parents immigrated legally. They got their education, my dad found a contract job, got sponsored, worked for years, got his Greencard ... Is it fair to people like him that other people can just jump the queue? None of them are really "refugees" .. they're economic migrants. There are also a ton of Chinese coming across that southern border that no one is talking about.

USAID was horrifically corrupt and many of the NGOs were used to shuffle around CIA operatives. In the 1960s, the US State Department had more CIA operatives on the payroll in embassy than actual state dept employees. Destroying USAID didn't fix this situation, as the CIA operations most directly into the State Dept. Also, most NGOs that weren't funding gender studies bullshit were also moved into the State Dept .. honestly nothing really changed with the dismantling of USAID. The Federal government barely saved any money, only a small amount of those programs went away and the CIA just has different places to hide their operations now. Getting angry over USAID was part of the divide and conquer strategy of whoever is really running the US (some combination of the CIA, DIA and Mossad).

It'd have to support full-text search by default. Mastodon, last I checked, was still in practice stuck with tags-only search that fails unless both the poster and searcher manage to correctly #GuessTheHashtag. I've read that Mastodon added in version 4.2.0, but I've never got it to work because it's not the default: the posting user has to deliberately seek out how to opt into full-text search before sending posts, and the administrator of the searcher's instance has to spend a lot more money for a much larger VPS with the RAM for Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Extreme right wing content - instant admission!

There is no difference between parties. They both want technocracy. The fake-dems letting in all of these people with refugee papers is just the other side of the coin. They are both getting everyone angry so both sides will embrace more and more authoritarianism.

Stop being baited and bating people. The entire government run by pedophiles and sexual blackmail is your enemy and the enemy of the people, not the fake-left or fake-right.

l think this comment wins the thread.