The anti-MS stuff has the fact that MS has a near monopoly on non apple hardware. Regardless of which browser you choose MS gets to pull their anticompetitive stuff. You can turn it off and then it pops back up with some update or it'll pop up and be a different setting to get rid of it in edge. Hell one time it almost forced me with a window one couldn't easily close. At least FF comes from a nonprofit that pushes privacy and web standards. It's easy to forgive it on a mishap like this especially when every other browser does the same.

"Instagram user surveys demonstrated that people have a "less satisfying" Reels experience when content is recycled from other apps" It's a bit too obvious of an excuse for facebook not wanting people to swap to a competing social media app and honestly whilst this will stop some bleeding I think they'll mostly fail to steal (back) that user attention because they simply fill a niche that's a bit too different.

Blue states should really stop subsidising red states with the results of their destructive commie policies it seems.

You mean the dems/libs? Most of em can be considered rightwing yes. Socioliberal sure but most of american politics is slanted right economics wise and has become somewhat crony capitalist in nature. Consequently whenever an idea is put forward by these people that plays lipservice to economically leftwing ideas it tends to do so mostly in a way that puts a bandaid on the consequences rather than address the cause. For example. Don't touch the disproportionate profits made from healthcare and insurance. Throw taxpayers money at it instead! Otherwise it'll never pass!

Like has been the case with bond buybacks to satisfy stockowners with money that could help the company longterm, fund r&d and boost wages? I wonder who deregulated those? Hmmm

Whilst this is an apt way of describing it this doesn't make it relate to socialism or socialists in the way you seem to imply. It's textbook crony capitalism and something Marx and co warned about and considered inevitable.

I think they wouldn't waste their time against a conglomerate with boatloads of money to pour into lawyers if they couldn't prove that google is giving preference to their own product in a way that can't be explained by organic effects like you describe. So we'll see I guess. I don't expect it to go well for Rumble tho if only due to google's clout and past examples of justice failures like Microsoft simply waiting out the bankruptcy of their suing competition in court.

Isn't Venezuela's gov owned share of the economy notably smaller than a few successful European countries if we go by gov expenditure as a percentage of gdp and wasn't it shrinking due to privatisations by the current regime (in the worse way possible by handing it to political friends as the Venezuelan regime is like most south american governments quite corrupt) tho notably focused on oil compared to those other economies. Additionally i believe a good few of Venezuela's billions were withheld by the UK following the sanctions making it particularly hard to respond to the sudden drop in price

Remember when Trump had his money there? Remember when Trump exempted ZTE from his tariffs according to him to quite literally to save those Chinese jobs and the next day China guaranteed a $500 million loan towards a Trump branded construction project in Indonesia?

And as someone else said with the extremely limited bandwidth of those satellites prices are likely to go up a lot as adoption increases

It's the US's protectionism. Not the EU's tho it would do the EU good to adopt it in this case for our own companies. I don't think any notable governments buy into the security claims but buying Ericsson and Nokia for intra EU solidarity sounds good.

Don't they generally provide handouts/subsidise the conservative places which keep loosing money?

You're forgetting that police use up a ridiculously huge and disproportionate budget in a bunch of places. Whether it's due to unrestricted overtime or what have you, the fact that they 're unionised whilst carrying a gun at all times or what have you. The budget for those first responders has to come from somewhere and lowering police funds is exactly what's needed for that in those places

Tbh this seems more of an issue with youtube and the like. Tiktok filter bubbles seem like it would be more overdone jokes vs weird dance trends vs pet vlog bits

Actually yeah we should. Microsoft, Apple, Epic, etc all these companies are greedy. Don't want anticompetitive practices? Then do something about it regardless of you liking or disliking the company who's benefiting from it.

Ah yes!. Just start competing with Apple and Google's monopsonies. Why didn't anyone ever think of that! You genius you