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TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell
  • I mean its a company alerting you to an impending loss of service and asking the only people who can turn course to do something. Its not much different to pornhub putting up a "no longer accessible, reach out to your senator" banner instead of aggressive privacy invading age checks. I think a lot of american websites did something similar when gdpr basically forced them to stop tracking us without consent.

  • TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell
  • Facebook was a key factor in the rise of trump and the January insurrection. I respect you're realising the lack of substance in this pov, I just want to say I don't see the appeal in an American company shovelling Russian propaganda over a Chinese one shovelling Chinese propaganda. Not like we're gonna do anything either way to remove the grip these companies have on people. Just push them to ones that feel more "like we are".

  • What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
  • Is the issue their censoring content globally or just at all. Twitter for example is known to cave to local governmental pressure but I suppose its limited to a particular region and people outside of there are still allowed access. Really I'm more disturbed anyone is careless enough to rely on social media for news. It's no secret their all just regurgitating what they or the platform owners want. Most youtubers actively avoid controversial content just to avoid demonitisation; if youre on a platform like truth social id be surprised if you ever get an impartial voice. I literally only scroll tiktok for cute and funny vids.

  • ‘I am so scared of them now’: Burned from overspending, some ‘buy now, pay later’ users warn others away
  • I think it's a gray line for some folks. I recently got my first credit card and I use it for all day to day expenses. It's amazing how easy it is to get side tracked while spending. You only having to down pay a certain amount of the outstanding credit and the limits are set by the provider not you. If i didn't keep monitoring it I think it'd be really easy to get a bill one month that just eats out all my other income.

  • How often do you update your system?
  • Once a week. I have to use proprietary realtek ethernet drivers and they need to be rebuilt with each kernel upgrade. I haven't figured out a clean way to plug them into packman and rebuild on kernel updates so I just update, reboot, rebuild and install drivers when I notice I'm on WiFi instead of ethernet.

  • UN overwhelmingly passes anti-Islamophobia resolution
  • Last July, the U.N. adopted a resolution condemning Quran burning, calling attacks on the Muslim holy book "religious hatred." The same month the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that deplores all acts of violence against holy books as a violation of international law.

    Holy books shouldn't be protected as some sort of sacred existence especially not globally. Religions should be scrutinised at all levels, putting any religious relic on a pedestal and enshrining protections that seem less focused on protecting followers of that religion and more on the idea of it is absurd. What's next you can't call scientology a cult because it hurts people's feelings.

    Edit: adjust phrasing.

  • Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU.
  • Doesn't really seem like the same motivation as what would suddenly lead to a 50% increase in adoption in the EU. I just don't really see the cause and affect between apple prompting you and suddenly firefox uptick. I'm guessing most people who used to install it never realised just installing it didn't make it the default (but they should've when they open any url).

  • As Ramadan begins, Israeli settlers increase attacks on Palestinian villages in occupied West Bank
  • Day one after they violated the last cease fire to attack a bunch of festival goers? Hamas is looking for time to plan the next attack. Pretending otherwise is just ignoring history. Israel is full on genocide mode atm but you don't seriously think hamas want a ceasefire so they can de-escalate the conflict and eventually open the door to more diplomacy to eventually reach a 2 state solution that avoids any ongoing suffering. Its easy to ask for peace after you stab someone in the chest. It's hard not to stab them to begin with and seek a peaceful and amicable resolution to existing hostilities.

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