What does a second chance look like to you if you don't mind my asking?
I think it's true that prison in the US can have a very deleterious effect on people's lives because we favor a retribution instead of rehabilitation style justice. So what I would hope for this and even people who are not...
If that part of the forum became very popular than not being visible to Google would make activity metrics for the site go down and damage the websites discoverability. Make it harder to get seen by newcomers.
I think the best possible answer is that we take an advertisement agreement option...
Liberalism. What's called leftist in the US is centrist in the global political stage (and liberal democrats tend to be a little right of center), and certainly when talking about political philosophy as a whole.
In political compasses, libertarian is a left right spectrum just like authoritarian is (the opposite of libertarian.)
The original libertarians were leftists between socialists and left anarchists, and fought along side socialists against facists and communists during and after WW2.
Today...
Biden. Not because I like him but because I believe Trump will make things tangibly worse and there isn't an independent option with enough framework to succeed presently. I'm less concerned with voting the option most aligns with my values than mitigating damage that a second Trump term will do.
Theism is no less a single belief than atheism. It does not come with any further instructions, does not regulate moral frameworks or behavior sets. It makes no declaration but about belief in the existence of a god or gods. If someone tells you they're a theist that tells you absolutely nothing...
That and the man who brought the bill to the floor (Mike Gallaghar) had a top contributor last election cycle of AIPAC, directly connecting the motive and means.
It could be. But it isn't. This is just poli-corporate red scaring for profit reasons using national security as a thin veneer. Without any actual evidence of security problems, as the incredibly embarrassing tiktok hearings showed.
I'd love to see a graph that compares this to other social media apps because bans of social media apps in general on government machines is pretty standard practice. But not bans of public use.
The last time that happened was with stormfront, a literal nazi holdout.
Tiktok just has the...
It's just security theater to feed their own benefactors in corporate. I doubt there's hardly any actual legitimate concern about the CCP among them, even the dinosaurs who made fools of themselves at the tiktok hearings not even knowing what an algorithm was.
And I'd sooner use Tiktok than...
You'd be amazed at just how many people across just about every career path put real data into chat boxes to generate letterheads, resumes, cover letters, email templates. Which means all that real data can be mixed algorithmically with all sorts of fake results, which is then utilized in...
You must have me confused with the kids on the playground that sort of thing works with.
I'll see you when your poor attitude and low quality debate style eventually gets you banned. For now, I think you'll just go on my ignore list.
You're welcome to rant at open air.
Let's be clear this isn't an actual ban. The bill says tiktok can go on so long as it's sold to a different company. And we all know Zuckerberg and Elon would be all too happy to snap it up given half the chance, since it's making hand over fist more money than their own social media platforms...
Can you imagine if they were forced to divest their Meta stocks before they were allowed to make such a ruling?
But honestly I don't trust the crooks to not recieve under the table payments.
The tiktok ban is being made by people with a vested interest in Meta and X. They just want an American company to get the revenue from the social media company. The worry about China (which is where the vast majority of our consumer products including computer chips largely come from) is just...