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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

“If lawmakers want to rein in the harms of social-media platforms, targeting just one under the guise of national security ignores an entire industry predicated on surveillance capitalism. Like all popular platforms — including those that Meta and Google own — TikTok collects far too much user data. But banning a single platform will not address the privacy problem that’s rotting the core of the entire tech industry.

If domestic social media is collecting dangerous amounts of personal info about Americans, then foreign social media under who are subject to the laws of adversarial nation-states should be seriously concerning.

The matter of domestic social media will have to be addressed by a completely different law because it cannot be addressed by a law similar to this new one. People who bring up domestic social media in discussions of this law are completely missing the point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not ok.

But the fact is that China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia are adversaries of the United States, and the US government is justified in its concern.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Install SponsorBlock.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a British thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Although Shupe’s limited copyright registration is notable, she originally asked the USCO to open a more significant path to copyright recognition for AI-generated material. “I seek to copyright the AI-assisted and AI-generated material under an ADA exemption for my many disabilities,” she wrote in her original copyright application.

Shupe believes fervently that she was only able to complete her book with the assistance of generative AI tools. She says she has been assessed as 100 percent disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs and struggles to write due to cognitive impairment related to conditions including bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a brain stem malformation.

I'm sympathetic, but writing a book is not something most people do regardless of their disabilities. Writing is a talent, and most people don't have it. So it makes no sense to invoke the ADA here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Blatant violations of the federal Fair Housing Act and California's Unruh Civil Rights Act.

Lawyer up and take the landlord for everything they've got.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you got it backwards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

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