Trump was never going to target Facebook, they've been far too accommodating to him and his racist associates. The conversation about Tiktok most likely went 'Hey, we're losing users to a Chinese app so we'd like them dealt with, in return we'll continue to let you post anything you like without repercussion, continue to run hyper targeted racist ads, and we'll give your friend Tucker the power to fact check other politicians and news outlets to sweeten the deal.'
Poorly thought out internet cubesats aren't the first step to colonising space. They're making life harder for the astronomers doing the actual groundwork for future space exploration and putting a lot of shiny garbage in orbit to endanger future missions.
They knew it could be a problem, but they pushed ahead anyway just to be first as nobody who cared was in a position to tell them no.
God help humanity if Elon Musk ever turns his attention to nanotechnology. We'll get lovely assurances that in future they'll take concerns on board and take more care in trying to avoid turning people into grey goo, even as people continue to melt.
How many of those people bought non Android and Apple devices and suddenly found themselves told they're going to have to agree to another company's intrusive terms of service or the thing they've bought will stop working properly?
Rupert Murdoch has been faced with the reality that on the internet, anyone can create a right wing propaganda site without the need to mask it behind cute animal stories and sports or celebrity news, and he hates it. The do it yourself nature of the internet made his rags readerships drop like a rock, and most of the remaining audience are dying without being replaced, his influence is shrinking so he's trying to become a government agency in all but name, testing the water in Australia before pushing for it in America and the UK.
Another day, another conservative protection act. For people who decry handouts to the poor, propping up organisations (usually state owned or unionised) that are struggling to deal with changing economic realities, hate money being taken by the state from the almighty corporations and government red tape interfering with businesses, they sure do seem keen on making laws to protect the businesses owned by their donors.
It was a fiasco by design. For twenty years now kids getting better exam results each year has been a major bugbear of the right wing press in the UK, more kids getting into better universities on merit (Oxbridge excluded) meaning those from wealthier backgrounds actually have to work and compete for places. Making university more expensive hasn't worked as well as they'd hoped, so when the pandemic rolled around, they saw a chance to kneecap poorer students and have a convenient tech scapegoat for doing so... But didn't expect the pushback to be nearly as universal.
And Obama had Republicans fighting tooth and nail to prevent him doing anything for most of that, using every 200 year old loophole they could find to block him undoing the damage left by Bush at every turn, while Trump had both houses for half of those four years, and basically used them push through tax cuts that would benefit him.
If Tiktok want to get out of this, maybe they should offer to sell users personal information to Palantir. Trump will stop caring about shady crap the moment someone in his orbit lines their pockets and gives him a kickback.
Well, they're not wrong. Being able to charge people more for less sure is popular with telecoms company execs, their lobbyists and the politicians they've bought and paid for. They're people too, barely, but they count.
Well, if you want to intentionally make a process slower, less efficient and pee away vast sums of money in the process to harm an organisation, getting blockchain involved sure seems like the way to go.
The never ending quest to find a real world use for blockchain rolls ever onward.
It's like the founding fathers said 'No man/corporation is truly free if they can't profit from selling personal data scraped by questionable means to people whose sole aim is to strip away the freedom of others.'
And so begins the hollowing out of the creative side of WB, firing the people who made the company worth anything, and the grand selloff of subsidiaries so the spreadsheet looks better now, with no thought as to how it'll look next year.
Ah yes, we all know facebook management is filled with democrats who would never have off the record private meetings with Trump. And don't get me started on their liberal fact checkers, those darned leftists at the Daily Caller run by known progressive, Tucker Carlson.
It should come as no surprise as anyone given how they're gating off all they can for DLC, microtransactions, pre-order bonuses, skin packs... Content that used to be accessible as a bonus for completing the game was gated off long ago and they've been looking for new ways to sell a complete game in pieces ever since because record profits are never enough.
They know it's Sony, we know it's Sony, but they don't want to say as much so not to anger Sony.
Sony are the company that tried to wall off a third of the multi platform Ghostbusters game as playstation exclusive content because they control the IP, it's just what they do.
On the post: Surprise: Report Claims Facebook Has Been Driving White House TikTok Animosity
Re: Re: How much did it cost?
Trump was never going to target Facebook, they've been far too accommodating to him and his racist associates. The conversation about Tiktok most likely went 'Hey, we're losing users to a Chinese app so we'd like them dealt with, in return we'll continue to let you post anything you like without repercussion, continue to run hyper targeted racist ads, and we'll give your friend Tucker the power to fact check other politicians and news outlets to sweeten the deal.'
On the post: Apple Goes In Even Harder Against Prepear Over Non-Apple Logo
Apple's trademark extends to all pomes? Who knew! No pear, loquat, hawthorn or quince logos allowed, you might want to try a nice drupe instead.
On the post: Regulators Are Ignoring How Low Orbit Satellite Broadband Is Trashing The Night Sky
Re: Oh calm down
Poorly thought out internet cubesats aren't the first step to colonising space. They're making life harder for the astronomers doing the actual groundwork for future space exploration and putting a lot of shiny garbage in orbit to endanger future missions.
On the post: Regulators Are Ignoring How Low Orbit Satellite Broadband Is Trashing The Night Sky
They knew it could be a problem, but they pushed ahead anyway just to be first as nobody who cared was in a position to tell them no.
God help humanity if Elon Musk ever turns his attention to nanotechnology. We'll get lovely assurances that in future they'll take concerns on board and take more care in trying to avoid turning people into grey goo, even as people continue to melt.
On the post: Tone Deaf Facebook To Cripple VR Headsets Unless You Link It To Your Facebook Account
Re: VR Gamers Yell at 3D Clouds
How many of those people bought non Android and Apple devices and suddenly found themselves told they're going to have to agree to another company's intrusive terms of service or the thing they've bought will stop working properly?
On the post: Google Warns Australians That The Government's Plan To Tax Google To Give Money To Newspapers Will Harm Search & YouTube
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Rupert Murdoch has been faced with the reality that on the internet, anyone can create a right wing propaganda site without the need to mask it behind cute animal stories and sports or celebrity news, and he hates it. The do it yourself nature of the internet made his rags readerships drop like a rock, and most of the remaining audience are dying without being replaced, his influence is shrinking so he's trying to become a government agency in all but name, testing the water in Australia before pushing for it in America and the UK.
On the post: Google Warns Australians That The Government's Plan To Tax Google To Give Money To Newspapers Will Harm Search & YouTube
Another day, another conservative protection act. For people who decry handouts to the poor, propping up organisations (usually state owned or unionised) that are struggling to deal with changing economic realities, hate money being taken by the state from the almighty corporations and government red tape interfering with businesses, they sure do seem keen on making laws to protect the businesses owned by their donors.
On the post: The Fortnite App Store Battle: A Real Antitrust Conundrum, Or Just A Carefully Planned Out Contract Negotiation?
It's the Disney/Sony Spiderman negotiations all over again, where one side is trying to use pressure from fans online as leverage during negotiations.
On the post: England's Exam Fiasco Shows How Not To Apply Algorithms To Complex Problems With Massive Social Impact
It was a fiasco by design. For twenty years now kids getting better exam results each year has been a major bugbear of the right wing press in the UK, more kids getting into better universities on merit (Oxbridge excluded) meaning those from wealthier backgrounds actually have to work and compete for places. Making university more expensive hasn't worked as well as they'd hoped, so when the pandemic rolled around, they saw a chance to kneecap poorer students and have a convenient tech scapegoat for doing so... But didn't expect the pushback to be nearly as universal.
On the post: So Now We Needed Another Ridiculous Executive Order About TikTok That Goes Beyond The President's Authority?
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But not the privacy concerns that are being used to justify trying to steal it from a foreign company.
On the post: So Now We Needed Another Ridiculous Executive Order About TikTok That Goes Beyond The President's Authority?
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And Obama had Republicans fighting tooth and nail to prevent him doing anything for most of that, using every 200 year old loophole they could find to block him undoing the damage left by Bush at every turn, while Trump had both houses for half of those four years, and basically used them push through tax cuts that would benefit him.
On the post: So Now We Needed Another Ridiculous Executive Order About TikTok That Goes Beyond The President's Authority?
If Tiktok want to get out of this, maybe they should offer to sell users personal information to Palantir. Trump will stop caring about shady crap the moment someone in his orbit lines their pockets and gives him a kickback.
On the post: Charter Spectrum Tells FCC Broadband Caps Are 'Popular' As It Tries To Kill Merger Conditions Preventing Them
Well, they're not wrong. Being able to charge people more for less sure is popular with telecoms company execs, their lobbyists and the politicians they've bought and paid for. They're people too, barely, but they count.
On the post: Just As The Postal Service Is Being Dismantled To Prevent The Handling Of Mail In Ballots, It Tries To Patent Blockchain Voting By Mail
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That's the right wing way, feel something, then find facts you can misinterpret to claim make it true.
On the post: Just As The Postal Service Is Being Dismantled To Prevent The Handling Of Mail In Ballots, It Tries To Patent Blockchain Voting By Mail
It's like a database, but slower!
Well, if you want to intentionally make a process slower, less efficient and pee away vast sums of money in the process to harm an organisation, getting blockchain involved sure seems like the way to go.
The never ending quest to find a real world use for blockchain rolls ever onward.
On the post: Clearview Hires Prominent First Amendment Lawyer To Argue For Its Right To Sell Scraped Data To Cops
It's like the founding fathers said 'No man/corporation is truly free if they can't profit from selling personal data scraped by questionable means to people whose sole aim is to strip away the freedom of others.'
On the post: AT&T Fires Hundreds Of DC, HBO Execs In Latest Example Of 'Merger Synergies'
And so begins the hollowing out of the creative side of WB, firing the people who made the company worth anything, and the grand selloff of subsidiaries so the spreadsheet looks better now, with no thought as to how it'll look next year.
On the post: Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway
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Ah yes, we all know facebook management is filled with democrats who would never have off the record private meetings with Trump. And don't get me started on their liberal fact checkers, those darned leftists at the Daily Caller run by known progressive, Tucker Carlson.
On the post: Console Exclusive Games Have Given Way To Console Exclusive Game Characters
It should come as no surprise as anyone given how they're gating off all they can for DLC, microtransactions, pre-order bonuses, skin packs... Content that used to be accessible as a bonus for completing the game was gated off long ago and they've been looking for new ways to sell a complete game in pieces ever since because record profits are never enough.
On the post: Crystal Dynamics Explains Spider-Man PS4 Exclusivity By Saying A Bunch Of... Words, I Guess?
They know it's Sony, we know it's Sony, but they don't want to say as much so not to anger Sony.
Sony are the company that tried to wall off a third of the multi platform Ghostbusters game as playstation exclusive content because they control the IP, it's just what they do.
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