Ok, but that webpad genuinely seems way ahead of it’s time. I want a webpad, and I’m 1000000% sure it’s software is so out of date it would be like running windows 3.1 today.

Still though. How awesome does the webpad look?

You just said all the things I said, except you’re using an arguementitive tone.

Yeah, he signed a 44 billion dollar deal as a joke, then he tried to get out of it when he said he didn’t mean it.

Then he got fined another 2 million dollars for sending the judges his dick pics after the judges wouldn’t let him back out.

Then after the sale went through, he did that photo op where he brought a kitchen sink and a toilet to the twitter building.

How is stating what happened defending him? Everybody including SEC saw all of this happen in real time.

I’m not a musk defender, but I kinda don’t see musk in the wrong on this. He didn’t even want to buy it. He said it publically as a joke, then got roped into being obligated to buy. All of this was very public. It’ll be hard to argue that it wasn’t known he had bought it.

I completely misunderstood the ban then. If you go back and read my previous thoughts on the matter, I debated IF this was good or bad.

And my debate was, do you allow actual spy services to keep spying in your country? Or do you ban the services, and introduce a precident which could easily be used towards a government lockdown of services?

And ultimately I landed of the belief that we shouldn’t ban tiktok. But that was under the assumption that it was a nationwide services ban. Not just a delisting from the app store.

Tiktok can still host the apk on their own website. Any other installations already installed on apple devices would still work. This isn’t a ban. It’s an app store delisting. And that’s fine. That initself doesn’t fly against the concepts of net neutrality. It becomes a matter of availability at that point.

And if tiktok is doing this of their own choice, then that doesn’t go against net neutrality either. That’s YOUR choice (if you are tiktok).

So, yeah. This small clarification really made this “debate” not much of a debate to me anymore. Ignore all previous positions I held. This issue just became simple. Fuck tiktok. Thats on them. The government didn’t ban them. They delisted an app.

Childporn is illegal on any network. As well it should be. Tiktok is not illegal as a result of this “ban”. That’s what I thought was happening. It’s not (assuming you are correct, which I have no reason to doubt).

You mispelled depressing. For some reason you spelled it as “wild”.

This is the third story I’ve seen today that was basically “Tiktok users flee service to other chinese service app you’ve never heard of”

So basically the usa banned tiktok, and now there’s 3 other tiktoks, all connecting the same amount of data for china, just through 3 different services instead of 1.

“BAAAHHH!!! YOU’RE CENSORING MY HATE SPEECH, RACIST SLURS AND DEATH THREATS!!! WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”

That CANNOT be the arguement you stand behind.

If I could, I’d like to ask these groups one simple question.

Why hate? Tell me what it is that makes you see another group of people with a different lifestyle or background, or culture, or anything else that you’re not a part of, and you default to hating that group.

I’ve never understood that concept. I can understand hating individuals, because those individuals are assholes. I have plenty of people throughout my life where I’ll say “Ugh, Gary is an asshole!”. But I don’t sit here and say “THOSE people are assholes!”

Because it’s perfectly fine to judge people. It’s actually important to judge people. But you can’t judge whole groups as one. It doesn’t work. Because EVERY group has good and bad. That’s just the nature of humans. So if you judge a whole group as one, you’re missing the point of judging. To judge someone is to analize their traits as a person. If you try to do that with a group, there’s too much variation to come to any conclusion, and at that point it’s not fair judgement, it’s just hate.

Which brings us back to “Why hate?”

And I want anyone from these groups who are transphobic, or maybe other groups that are racist, or maybe other groups that are hateful towards any gender, I want them to explain their hate. I want them to lay out their logic.

Because I assume they’ll spew out some hateful statement like “They’re always doing this and this”. And I would challenge them on that.

“When did they do this and this?”

Or maybe they’d say “Because they have menal illness!” And I’d say “So you hate people with mental illness? If someone in your family develops dementia, you’ll hate them too?”

Every sentence they take I’d challenge them to make a logical explaination of it. Because I don’t think they can. And 9/10 of them I don’t think will change. However, I think you’ll get some people who realize “Wait…am I wrong? Am I being an asshole? Oh my god I’M the asshole here!”

Maybe we blow up another Tesla.

At what point did I discredit Edward Snowden, or defend twitter?

This is what I was worried about with tiktok being banned.

I don’t have a tiktok. I don’t like the concept. I won’t be joining loops. I just don’t like the core concept.

Now add in that it’s a chinese spying tool, and I’m all the way out.

Buuuuuuut it does pose a tricky situation. Ban it, and set a precident that banning social networks is ok. Maybe they ban the fediverse next. We all know this country is run by billionaires and big business. We all know that the onlu reason tiktok is banned is because it competes with X, and Elon is basically president now.

So what stops them from banning the fediverse? Every single instance is now illegal. And since the fediverse is so unknown, it’s not like there would be much pushback politically.

So. Ban the chinese spy tool, or defend net nuetrality?

When life gives you lemons…or something. Anyways, they better do this quick. Tick Tock, the clock is ticking!

God damn the German language sure uses the entire alphabet in every word…How do they fit names onto their street signs???

At least now the other states can use this as precident that it’s unconstitutional.

Only if they’re master of their own domain.

Mastodon gHmbH? What happened there? Was he naming the company and somehow fell on the keyboard?

I thought instagram was for college aged girls to post thirst pics, and then complain that they can’t find anybody who respects them for their intellect.

…why is this in /c/technology? Am I missing context?

I don’t even HAVE a facebook account.

I have a psvr, but only one company makes an app you can watch your own files on. And they charge $30 for the app.

But then they say “no porn”.

Well then I’m not buying your overpriced VR app!!! Why do you think I was even looking in the first place??? I was going to download some porn files in VR, and then watch it them through a usb stick in the ps4 on your app! But noooooooooooo. You hate money! Asshole!

Sorry. Not you. I was talking to the app.