Yeah, my argument against deregulation is probably relevant here: big corporate is just big government by another name, except with even less transparency. Never fully trust any entity which has enormous power over your life; even the most well-intentioned mega-entity is still prone to accidentally ruining lives through bureaucratic oversight. So I would hope people protesting government intrusion would also realize that e.g. Facebook is a de facto global governing structure of sorts...

Though this might work for some things, unfortunately, I think it is susceptible to Nazism. "Does this video make society a better place" could get a "yes" from plenty of people who have just sat through a video telling them how $marginalized_group is the root of all evil and must be "dealt with" =/

Yeah, I'd call that sentence more... vapid and awkward, like much corporate speech, than tortured. It's not like it's unparseable; the meaning is fairly clear -- it's just pointless in the context presented. It serves no constructive purpose for the reader, being a vague attempt to invoke a nonspecific sense of nostalgia, likely to distract people from the frustration of the shop being closed? Corporations churn this slop out with or without LLMs

According to the CNN write-up of the directive (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/tech/tiktok-download-commerce/index.html), any and all internet traffic containing WeChat data will be illegal. I wonder how they plan to enforce that, exactly, and who it would be enforced against. A lot of Chinese Americans apparently use WeChat to stay in touch with their families in China. This could be turn to sinophobic ends pretty easily, via selective enforcement.

The executive order also prevents TikTok from applying security updates, which sounds like the kind of thing worm writers love to hear... But, eventually, TikTok traffic becomes illegal on November 12th, unless Oracle can make Trump happy. Again, how that would be enforced -- and how selectively it will be enforced -- is concerning.

I'd argue that if your kids can figure out how to boot Linux off a thumb drive, they're mature enough to not need a filtered internet. ;)

Are all filters created by clever algorithms nowadays? HTML5 doesn't allow the META tags for PICS-label content ratings... So I'm guessing nobody actually content-rates their websites anymore, they just let other companies' algorithms label them?

Law Enforcement to "criminal" : Well we broke in cos' your civil rights weren't very strong. You were asking for it.

And even then it'd end up being called "Plasticky McPlasticface"...

You don't classify telling police that there's an armed murderer in a house as "Inherently dangerous"? Do you not read the news or something?

1) Create competitor to widely used social media network
2) Create app that makes said network toxic
3) See users defect to your network in droves
4) PROFIT!!!

"Russian government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries." - and if you think the US is free then I'm afraid you've swallowed the poison cool-aid.

First they started with the pedos, cos' that's a no-brainer, right? Then they made "extreme" pr0n and cartoons illegal. Now it's "terrorist content" (With the government deciding what qualifies). What next? Attempting to educate yourself in an "non-sanctioned manner"?
It's kind of a shame nobody said anything about "The thin end of the wedge" years go huh...?

Riiight. Cos' the air that leaks in is all going to stay in one place like a pile of sand... Please learn some basic fluid dynamics before commenting next time.

Oh, police kill BAME people here too - it's just that cos' we don't hand a firearm to anyone capable of reciting the oath of office they have to be more ...creative... about it
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Only Spamsung aren't taking returns on the bricked TVs, claiming that it's a temporary issue that'll soon be fixed.