three_seagrass

Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.

What's even more fascinating is how hot-button an issue Free Speech has become.

Just look at some of the inflammatory replies to your comment that just mentions it. There's more going on with the semantics of the phrase being used to irrationally rile people up to outrage, rather than actually being about the definition of free speech.

Also consumer bias, or "post-purchase rationalization" - i.e. humans overly attribute positivity to goods/services from brands they buy from.

Even when it's as bad as throwing you in the wrong lane of traffic.

It's down across the board except for Facebook apps, meaning Meta probably increased their advertising budgets during this timeframe relative to the others.

Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.

>I'm frankly amazed that people with the ability to understand this alphabet soup mumbo jumbo keep falling for the same scam over and over again. Underneath all of the slick marketing and nerd posturing is a simple truth: these are all fractional reserve systems. Conceptually, they are no different than banks or pyramid schemes.

There are rational people who knowingly invest in ponzi and other schemes because they think they can get out before the music stops playing.

Some ultimately do, and some ultimately get caught.

Ok as long as you don't use a halyard, since rope could be considered wire.

Did you read the article? ByteDance's headquarters is in Beijing and these leaked audio tapes are talking about engineers in the headquarters logging into U.S. servers.

This isn't some smoking gun about CCP surveillance, but more about how the sausage is made for a global app.

Facebook and Instagram were banned because they wouldn't obey China's censorship and surveillance laws, not because they were western tools of influence or whatever.

China doesn't ban US tech that obeys the CCP's surveillance laws, like Apple does. This targeting of tiktok is pretty specific by US government, because it singles out a company rather than act as a law.

Apple tried but just gave in to the government surveillance.

LHD/RHD swamp doesn't really matter given that the truck is probably too long for UK.

They would still need to swap out headlights anyways.