Rehab can and does work, so good on the French.

Who's law ?

Different countries have different laws, does this mean the US has the right to break the laws in all other countries just because it is legal in the USA ?

Yes, I already know this is how the US behaves, but now it is codified .

Best keep US AI out of the country, the US may decide it can be used to cause harm elsewhere "Legally".

You can not "cancel" my books, even if you go belly-up, change T&Cs , those books are still mine.
I have about 2000 physical books, lots of older books I bought 2nd hand, but lots I bought new.

AND when I want to, I can sell them to someone else

You can stick with your book rental, I don't care, but I will always prefer paper.

I won't have to upgrade. Everything I need works and should continue to work.
I still run Final Cut Pro 7 on my 2019 27" iMac, it does exactly what I bought it for, nothing has changed.
OSX server still runs on my Mac Mini's , nothing has changed

And I agree Liquid Ass is crapola, it consumes processing power for no actual benefit.

Software has gone from iterative improvement to "lets throw away the UI that works, for some UI wank that no one asked for"

Nothing in that list applies to me, I have moved on from most of it or never used it anyway.

BUT

Bring back OSX server.
Fix "books" its an embarrassment , either than or kill it.
Leave all the fluff turned off by default and those that want it can turn it on. I spend ages turning the junk off fro myself and others.
Give us the option to hide OS upgrades, I am NOT upgrading to IOS 26 so I do NOT want to see that badge on the system prefs telling me I must upgrade .
"Home" is junk, I moved to Hubitat ages ago, it's 100 times better.
Oh...I DON"T rent software..... NEVER...I have dumped applications which shifted to subscription, bought a different product. The same applies to you.
Adding the MagSafe back to laptops...100% good move.

The dopamine and other neuro chemical hits kids get while their brain is developing is the real harm.
They are addictive
That is a well known fact by Social media, other sites, and "influencers".

So long as THEY get wealthy, they don't care what harms they od.

Not the internet, social media or other places where kids may hang out.

I remember the cry of doom when it air travel became smoke free, restaurant became smoke free, etc etc
It did not happen

You need a licence to drive a car ( in spite of what soviets say), ID to buy alcohol, enter adult entertainment places, buy weed, etc etc.

So this too is another end of the world socialism, etc etc etc.
But if you bothered to look, nordic countries have a far better quality of life than the USA does. Socialism is not communism.
Its dictatorships that are the problem, left, right, religious..all are dangerous in the extremes.

Capitalism with out regulations is like healthcare without vaccines.

Work around four what ?
If none of their friends are on it, they won't bother. Lot of social media type stuff has been and gone once it was no longer interesting for the kids.

And it's like vaccines, 90% gives heard immunity.

The parents are the ones wanting this.
50% of parents are below average, and of those I would guess 90%+ are IT illiterate
Too many parents are working multiple jobs just to keep their heads above water
So, they are 100% behind a solution that they can live with.

And I agree with them , social media is a plague on humanity.
The people who own social media platforms KNOW they are addictive, harmful, etc etc etc , bit so long as they make billions its a who cares from them.

Other industries, tobacco, alcohol, gambling porn, etc ....they all ended up with regulatory controls and age restrictions, and social media needs the same restrictions applied.

Does not have to be perfect, so system is, but if they can get 80% or more kids off social media, it will become a place they dont go to anyway, none of their friends are on it, and it will become boring for them, so more will just not bother.

The bus I use to get to work is electric, has been for a couple of years now.
Properly utilised electric rail can significantly reduce the needs for large trucks (that damage roads, cause pollution, etc).

The people who only want problems are being out thought by the people finding solutions.
Will ICE or other variants disappear entirely, probably now, but there are bio-fuels, hydrogen and other options will reduce/remove the need for dead dinosaurs...

But they significantly reduce the need for other polluting forms of generation during the day.

For countries who already have significant other means of generation (ie hydro) they can reduce flows during the daylight hours, With climate change this is a self preservation act in its self as many places will see less rainfall, less snow (and ice melt). Wind power is also a good option that works 24/7.
During off peak hours they can use excess production to pump water up hill so it can then be used as hydro during peak hours.
Battery storage will become better and some countries are already using large capacity batteries.

And the people who only try and find fault, they are never the ones who find solutions.

The kick backs will be about 10% of that funding.
Why do you think they have never passed an audit.

And you now have religious bullying happening where bad student can get staff fired for giving them poor grades "because of my christian beliefs".

That has already happened with bot farms, AI will just be more efficient.

Social media has a far better grasp on it. They use association trees etc with "trust" based on how long each person in that tree has been online and so on.

You are nowhere as anonymous as you think, this is why the 3 letter spaghetti agencies buy data from social media, it is more up to date and more reliable and they have far better cross linking than they do...all voluntary, well mostly, because anyone to tags you in a picture etc has now identified you visually and they will scour all photos in the swarm of data that you are linked into (age groups, Race, Education, Church, Location, etc etc etc) to find other pictures and more associations.
IIRC Zuckerberg said years ago they knew where 95% of the people in the world lived to within 1km, that will have plummeted as they access property ownership records, shipping records etc from Amazon, Uber, etc etc etc.

There are a million data points linking you, your CC being used in a cafe, which correlates to your phone being there, or you watch or laptop, etc etc etc + links from security cams, you know all those Rings ones etc.

You are deluded if you think you are not known.