Sometimes, the point of research is to experimentally prove things we suspect are true.

Especially since it specifically highlights porn in a different color, it labeled my VPN IP as “Likes Porn”.

Where’s your encrypted USB recovery key stored?! Is it encrypted USBs all the way down?

The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.

Where’s the lie? I just can’t trust you “gibbons can fly” people.

Well you’re really just inheriting a subscription to the house, you have to keep paying the annual fees or the state takes it away from you.

I kinda like the new google. It’s strong and wrong and doesn’t afraid of anything.

When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.

Love it when the logical excuse is the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Though I think there’s some truth - companies still pay employees for their WFH rigs / utilities (or they should be, anyway), so it’s not exactly free for them to have WFH (just a lot cheaper, if there’s a choice).

The logical excuse I buy into is that commercial real estate is valued on it’s income and if business aren’t renewing leases because they don’t need office space, then commercial real estate values tank. That and thinly veiled layoffs.

If you’re in need, check out PCsForPeople, they offer subsidized unlimited 4G hotspots. They’re well suited for low-bandwidth uses and was my primary home internet for a few years. I used Wifi bridge routers to help connect ethernet / more devices / better range.

There’s also still the Lifeline program, which is a much smaller discount, but can still help.

Thanks for the context in this specific case in response to my last paragraph.

So you’re saying it could have been done 6 months ago but is only now being done in the 4th year of Biden’s term?

By the content of the post, I’d imagine.

People don’t use hashtags on a lot of sensitive topics, because they already fear suppression within Tiktok. The US based operation is already partially owned by Oracle (and all of Larry Ellison’s shenanigans) and Walmart as of 2020. For example, since October, Tiktok creators went to extreme lengths to mask the content of pro-Palestinian news, including using hand written note cards or other things that are difficult for automated filters to flag. Anti-establishment messages were already suppressed and widely brigaded by Zionists.

#Thispostisaboutfruit

Most assuredly, the licensing of the spectrum comes with requirements and strings, so those broadcasters are regulated. They must follow the rules or risk their license.

However, radio licensing came about to avoid broadcast “collisions” for amateur radio operators in ~1912. Regulations came later under the FCC in 1934.

These same collisions are not applicable to the internet (or rather, we’ve already used methods to avoid them, like DNS).

This is the “fourth year surge,” where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they’re doing a good job. They tend to pass more legislation and use fewer executive orders during this time.

Some of the policy that previous presidents are best known for were passed during this surge time, including Social Security, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Rights Act, Federal Highway Aid Act, Equal Pay act, etc.

Here, asking “why” is asking “what is their incentive”.

There may be some merit to saying that a president is an entire branch of government and cycling out staff in key positions to get them in political alignment can take a lot of time. Biden’s admin has had to re-staff many departments after Trump.

The ocean is only marginally explored.

Isn’t broadcast licensing specifically about partitioning radio spectrum space, which isn’t applicable here? US-based social media isn’t licensed and applying radio era law to internet may not be appropriate.

Surveying content on Tiktok by hashtag is spurious. It’s not the primary method of content aggregation.

with warrants

Yeah, maybe.

Jon Stewart is fun to listen to, but I swear these headlines are driving me nuts. “Slammed” “skewered” “destroyed”. No, he said critical words that did not even hurt the feelings of the AI industry. Superfluous superlative.

Amazon pretending it to be automated !

Is it surprising for a company running a service called Mechanical Turk?