WhatsThePoint
@WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 6 months ago:
That was my rational too when I initially did my research.
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 6 months ago:
They didn’t aggressively advertise when I first started using them like 6 years ago. I have yet to see evidence of their no-log policy being broken but it’s hard to trust most companies these days.
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 6 months ago:
I used Nord VPN a lot of research when I initially started using them years ago. What have you heard about them?
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 6 months ago:
I don’t understand why these legacy game license owners don’t start licensing out their old games on the cheap to game services like Apple Arcade or Steam to get extra revenue on them. They learned that lesson in streaming and it gave a ton of mostly dead IP new life.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 6 months ago:
Zuck read Ready Player One and wants so badly to be James Halliday. He just wants to be loved. 🤣
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
Thank you for stating the context! People always want magic wand fixes but changing rules and laws at government level have so many moving parts and counteracting forces to overcome. It takes time. Too many people just immediately assume it’s some negative skeptical reason without knowing the details.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Right?! As well as banning social media. China has banned basically every American social media long before this.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
This was the original compromise, but Byte Dance repeatedly gave access to said servers to engineers with ties to the CCP against the agreement’s stipulations. Byte Dance broke the compromise.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
No doubt the sale would monetarily benefit someone, but since Byte Dance didn’t comply with the original work around, I don’t see a much better solution to remove the CCP’s influence on Byte Dance and the app. It’s definitely not as black and white as much of the discourse I’ve seen. I appreciate discussing it with you and I see many of your points. Data brokers are indeed out of control. I hope the language in the bill banning data brokers from selling to foreign adversaries is somehow helpful in getting the ball rolling on deeper limits to data mining. Precedents being set to limit them could be a good first step.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
Reading the bill further - it does mention the banning of the sale of America data to foreign adversaries enforceable by the FCC. That language does sound like a ban on data brokers selling to China too. It will be difficult to enforce with shell corporations and non-adversary countries who may partner with Chinese companies, but the language seems to be there. Be interesting to see how this plays out.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
I thought the forced sale was trying to get it to be able to stay around because a ban was so unpopular while accomplishing the same goal of breaking China’s access to the algorithm. They tried the Oracle housing but Byte Dance kept giving access to engineers with ties to the CCP. Either way, I just get an overall vibe in this debate that China isn’t a big threat and I think that’s a mistake. Not saying you specifically but the discourse that I have read across many posts.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
I agree privacy bills need to be passed. 100%. One of the main reasons I am typing this here instead of Reddit. I’m just pointing out this is far from just an unprovoked action. There isn’t enough talk in this debate about the host of messed up shit being done to America by China (and Russia)in the digital space. Cyber attacks are at all time high. It sucks Tik tok is getting banned, but privacy laws aren’t also being rolled out. It’s also true that China is indeed using Tiktok’s data maliciously. Both things can be true. My statement was to point out it’s not JUST a cash grab by social media companies, China is also a real threat and that shouldn’t be overlooked.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
China made American companies partner and share their IP with Chinese companies when the Chinese market was opened back in the 90s. That’s how China caught up to us in technology, they straight up stole the IP and changed terms on the American companies. I believe there is some tit for tat happening here. China has done a lot of fucked up shit and they are definitely actively hacking American infrastructure and social engineering against American interests. They are harvesting American data and tweaking the algorithm to actively undermine American interests. Whether you agree or disagree, China started this fight. China has banned most American social media already.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
You should read “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer. Goes into it and a lot of other very eye opening stuff about how the billionaire foundations changed this country.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
The reason it’s overwhelmingly called “climate change” instead of global warming now is because of language change pushed by billionaire foundations. The Koch network specifically focus grouped and created the term change. Whether we want it considered left wing or not, the billionaire backed right has made such statements left wing.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
I’ve been saying this for a while. They saw the Arab Spring and other populist movements. With their vast oil wealth, tanking Twitter was a small price to pay to re-fracture descent and silence the left. The concentration of wealth has given insane power to wealthy who skew overwhelmingly on the side of themselves. The rise of the right is a direct result of billionaires funding across numerous avenues. They played the long game because they only have to pay people and let them do it for them. Regular folks have to stay engaged in the battle after working to support themselves. Billionaires are the matastasized cancer of capitalism.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Can you just not connect your Smart TV to the internet at all to bypass this? I never connect my Smart TVs to the internet, just my Apple TV since it’s my streamer platform. Seems like this would hamstring their ability to push ads.
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
Money has no shame. Businesses only have reactionary shame in relation to possible loss of money.