It’s okay to be outraged by outrageous things even if they are obvious.

Most of the main subs auto shadowban anyone that hasn’t provided a verified email. So it’s possible you’re not banned site wide yet.

China’s not going to let tiktok fall out of their control. If it gets sold it will be to someone beholden to them.

The rebuttal wasn’t as comforting as some are making it out to be. They seem to be more interested in the semantics of it not being a backdoor tied to a specific product, which appears to be true.

Rather it is a potential for vulnerability that exists in all wireless implementation, which seems to me to be a bigger issue.

Censorship is not just a concept of law.

Steroids aren’t speech.

It’s not illegal for the other party to include it, but it is absolutely censorship by any definition of the word.

Okay, but what’s the bad part here? That’s just a very generic overview of how donating works.

Need to start spoofing user agent strings again.

Sadly that changed with the Presidential Quarters. They minted them as legal tender for all presidents up to the then current president George W. Bush.

The democrats pretend to want to do those things but somehow those pesky republicans keep stopping them. Now that it’s their turn as the opposition, though, oh well, nothing they can do. It’s the republicans’ government now.

The drama isn’t exactly their fault. There are a lot of rich organizations that want them to cease to exist. Most of which want track you online and/or shove ads down your throat.

The guy who literally changed the rules so he could stay in power indefinitely isn’t a dictator? Right, there is no point in continuing if you can’t agree on objective reality.

the leading interest being whatever dictator sits at the top.

This is the part that matters. This is also true for Soviet communism or really any real life communism. The instruments are different, but the song is the same.

That doesn’t change that the powers of governance and commerce were in the same hands. Changing what you call it is just semantics.

Most likely, but the chance of getting it anyway isn’t zero.

Didn’t the state own all the corporations in the USSR? How would that not be state and corporate power combined?

Archive the physical copy for the inevitable shutdown. No one can stop an old disc player plugged into a dumb tv.

They might be using a third party authenticator to control access. My own job does that. Though I’ve been told we’re moving to Outlook soon.

You do realize that the act of protesting predates the invention of the phone by a long way, right?