I disagree, I think enacting legislature in a democracy that holds these entities to strict rules and accountability would be taking them back. The only true way for a people as a whole to hold more influence over it than it’s billionaire owners.
Idk why but that reminds me of that Rucka Rucka Ali verse.
"You like Ninja Turtles?
I was the third.
clansmen."
Not really, though. Age would be a bigger indicator.
Ah man, I was friends with a dude for over a decade and I would never EVER give them my phone number for SMS.
For the best in the end, he lost 50 IQ after catching covid.
Wine + coffee
But you would build resistance to both over about three weeks.
Admittedly any guy who cuts things with his mind is permanently off my list.
Weird, normally people catch that while still alive.
Idk I think its deeper the way it is. The lion and his wolf henchmen have the facade of nobility and honour, while the fox theif is the truly honourable one.
It’s all her company’s fault that impoverished nations exist lmfao
“We give it all (and more) away to the worst of us. There often is nothing left for ourselves at the end of the day.”
~cm0002
For all you know she works for a nonprofit charity that performs lifesaving surgery on children from impoverished nations. Why take such a perfectly good comic and load the post title with your bias to this extent?
You actually don’t want your ankles to be smooth. The thick rough skin prevents the feet from bleeding and bruising as a result of mobility.
Y’all ever heard “Skunk Anansi - I believed in you”? Not that old but still a classic.
Facilitated by, maybe. Contributed to, sure. The primary end goal of, no.
ByteDance wasn’t operated for profit like the others, it was operated to do harm. The fact that they would rather shut down than sell 80% of ownership for a hefty profit is proof of that.
If you don’t recognize data privacy as data privacy thats just a skill issue.
“Pig Butchering” and political radicalization towards violence, as well as the largest YoY increase in hacks, specifically from china, which have had large measurable impacts on US Industry.
And thats just ongoing problems, they’ve probably gotten enough peoples social security, bank acc no., fingerprint, facial ID, etc to do so much more if they decide to cash in on their schemes early.
Also, if they suddenly decide the USA is weak enough, such as after losing a third of annual defence spending capability via withdrawal from NATO, the Chinese now have intimate knowledge of our defences.
You are already paying the price and it could only get worse.
Right so the arbitrary line of not data privacy and is data privacy lay just before GDPR.
So nothing short of a complete ban of all social media and advertising is Data Privacy to you, then?
I choose to believe a hostile foreign dictatorship means more harm than a hostile domestic for profit business.
Probably because that aligns with what each of them says they want, to say nothing of their actions.
Bht hey, if at least one of them gets banned thats a win.
Some people actually have the services they host get used by other people.