The social media firms make immense profits, which is how Zuckerberg had been able to burn oodles of it on the metaverse and AI without sinking Facebook. They would be a very profitable company still… (View Post)

And in our present moment everyone hates their government and so the opposition is focused on the mendacity and stupidness of governments, rather than on the Tech firms. The Tech firms whose social m… (View Post)

And being "forced" to verify your age, so that they have your exact legal identity, is "accidentally" going to be a boon for the big Tech firms and their micro-targeting of advert… (View Post)

Norway and Spain have followed Australia with their own bans, and Ireland are talking about using their EU Presidency to make a decision on an EU-wide ban. So this is definitely an idea that is out t… (View Post)

Yeah. I feel like most sensible ideas suggested on here implicitly carry the caveat that, for whatever reason, they're unlikely to be implemented by any British government. But I still like to d… (View Post)