NaibofTabr

Mongolia?

You just broke the secret law!

Typical fascist behavior.

Quality control is expensive, and all they ever do is complain about how my brilliant idea to save money will kill more trees or some shit.

eh, reddit was like that for like the first 10 years

Suddenly I’m visualizing a Dune version of Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, playing funk, and presented in the visual style of the recent Denis Villeneuve films.

Absolutely, that’s the problem that Google is targeting here. Republicans like to claim that federal regulation is bad for businesses, but in reality it’s state-level regulation that makes it harder for businesses to operate.

Not to be super pro-Google, this is purely self-interested for them. But it seems like people are interpreting this as Google being anti-regulation in general, and I don’t think that’s correct.

Or have a “tea drinking” session:

When I was able to speak to Ms. Wu about the “tea drinking” session (euphemism for police harassment), she sharply conveyed her sense of vulnerability due to the lack of interest in her stepping away from her popular Twitter account, stating,

Literally the only thing that was keeping me online for the past few years was they were worried it would make China look bad if they cracked down on me. Now that they know that I could be dead in a ditch tomorrow and no one would give a shit or say a word I’m 1000x less safe here.

[…]

Wu added,

After years of doing this without anyone saying anything, on June 30th, out of the blue, they send plainclothes thugs to my house. Surprise! They were real cops.

Why? because she’s LGBTQ+, has a Uyghur partner, and has some friends in Western nations.

reference: https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

https://x.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1177145458503737344

You can’t hold no groove

Victor Wooten 1 2 3

I think there’s some confusion over the intent here.

Lawmakers in state capitals across the country […]

So based on this, Google is using “state” here to mean a US state and not the more general meaning of government.

For large corporations like Google, each state having its own local regulations (e.g. privacy regulations such as CCPA) is expensive because they have to account for different rules in different places, which means whole teams of legal experts just to be familiar with each state’s regulations and interpret what they mean for operating the business.

It’s also problematic in a technical sense, because on the internet how do you know if a particular user is a legal resident of Texas or Colorado or New Hampshire, and would even knowing that be a violation of their privacy rights?

So the intent here is to push federal regulation over state regulation, because it makes the legal and technical problems simpler.

Ultimately this is an argument against the way the Republican party does things, where they reject federal regulations saying that the states should be allowed to regulate themselves and that federal regulation is an overreach. This leads to weaker protections for citizens and weaker enforcement, which is the Republican party’s real intent. Every US citizen should have privacy protections, not just residents of California.

I’m always hard at work.

Assuming this gains traction, I don’t see how they’ll prevent it from being abused with targeted misinformation, short of manually reviewing and approving every new article and every edit.