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atrielienz

@ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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  • Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID

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  • Job hunting is what I meant. And you pretty much have to use your personal phone for that. I haven't ever had a company phone. Doubt they'd give it to techs.

  • Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID

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  • If you're job hunting, or work in specific fields this may not be a reasonable thing to do and that's at least part of the problem.

  • Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them

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  • Yeah. Y'all can keep that.

  • FTC: Companies Are Using Your Data for Individualized 'Surveillance Pricing'

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  • Americans care but they're bad at organizing. Significantly so. They fight amongst themselves and get caught up in drama. They spread misinformation and don't like facts that conflict with what they believe is right. So these kinds of movements stagnate unless someone with a specific type of charisma gives them a direction to follow.

  • I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned?

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  • There are problems with the law as well. The main one is that Tik Tok buys a whole lot of data about Americans and their browser history etc from data brokers. So they don't necessarily need the app to gather information. Comparisons of the Tik Tok app vs it's counterpart in China exist and they paint a pretty significant picture of the differences and similarities that explain how it could be used to push a narrative or propaganda. Barring that though two things can be true. It can be true that Tik Tok is a danger to national security, and also be lobbied against by American Tech companies.

    What we're seeing is that this law was the result of several things and doesn't just have one singular aim. Anyone who says it's just about one singular thing just doesn't want to admit the validity of the other arguments because it ruins how they feel about the federal government, Tik Tok, China, Trump, Biden etc.

  • Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok

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  • Who asked for a 50% stake in the company.

  • Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok

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  • Yep. But this doesn't answer their question. I'm rooting for a Tik Tok CEO vs Meta CEO battle Royale at the inauguration.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • Because they are distributed by a company that is owned by Bytedance. You know. The people who own Tik Tok.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • Large businesses literally operate in conflict with the law until the law directly forces consequences, usually in monetary form. So, until they get caught and are forced not to do the thing. Explain to me why this is any different.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • Sigh. H. R. 7521 stipulates that the POTUS must make the determination using data supplied from several federal agencies etc that an app or service violates the terms laid out in the law. Then a formal investigation will be launched by the AG's office and if that investigation finds that the app or service is in violation of the law that app or service will be added to a list of apps or services not allowed to be disseminated to the public via American based app stores. That app or service does have the right to appeal the decision within a specific time frame and appeals will be handled by the appropriate district court. At that point if they win the appeal they continue to operate. If they lose the appeal they can do what is called a qualified divestiture so that they would no longer be operating in conflict with the law. Or they can do what Tik Tok did and remove access without the law even being enforced.

    So, yes, Trump can just not name Tik Tok as in violation of the law, the AG won't investigate it, and nothing will come of it.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • Tik Tok removed platform access from their US userbase voluntarily.

    This was their choice.

    The law is literally not even being enforced.

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    What the hell is Andy Yen doing? (read description)

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  • "Thank you for responding. It's not nearly as polarizing as you suggest once you look at the numbers.

    The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 20, 2022, with a 16-6 bipartisan vote.

    Senators who voted in favor (Yes):

    Democrats:

    Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

    Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

    Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

    Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

    Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE)

    Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

    Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)

    Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

    Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)

    Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

    Republicans:

    Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

    Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

    Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

    Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

    Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)

    Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

    Senators who voted against (No):

    Republicans:

    Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

    Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE)

    Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)

    Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

    Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

    Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

    Now tell us again how the "bipartisan" bill where EVERY NO VOTE IS REPUBLICAN is evidence that the Democrats are not committed to antitrust reform?

    Schumer didn't oppose the bill. You know very well that he made a strategic decision to not bring the bill to a vote because the Silicon Valley tech bros opposed the bill and THANKS TO CITIZENS UNITED, their money is SPEECH.

    The people who brought you that decision were ALL REPUBLICAN appointees. Every single one.

    In a 50/50 divided Senate (with two independents in the D column but Sinema and Manchin working against the caucus), there was a POLITICAL REALITY to contend with. Sadly, the money screws up everyone.

    You are 100% wrong about this alleged reversal of "little guy" roles, and you seem to be deliberately obtuse about the facts."

    This is a quote directly from the reddit thread where he made his secondary statement after the first one on shitter went viral. Context is important and he still has yet to actually answer to this.

  • This "Basic" Robot Solves REAL Problems (without AI)

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  • They have a point. I'm an elder millennial and I abhor being sent a video. I prefer text based news, and usually don't intentionally click videos. But on the other hand, that's probably more because I have to be in the right setup to watch a video (where I can dedicate my attention to it without disturbing anyone or being disturbed), and so my preference is text.

  • I tested an ink pen that digitizes your handwriting, but the app makes it truly useful

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    What the hell is Andy Yen doing? (read description)

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  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • I know, but I have it set as a custom search engine and what I'm saying is, if someone were to use it in chrome would it still require them to enable java. I think that answer is that it would. I don't use chrome so I'm not gonna test it.

  • RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users

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  • Loops is unfortunately not ready for 70 million new users.

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • Doing this to combat bots like they aren't also using bots to scrape data from the internet is interesting.

    I wonder how this affects modified/custom search engines (like udm14).

  • Sweeping Cyber Security Order

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  • Agreed. I'll fix that. Thank you.