@[email protected] I have been banging the drum about the whole push to ban TikTok for a while because it came from a Facebook lobbying effort (at first) and was meant to crush Meta’s biggest competitor while dangling a red herring that would distract from real comprehensive privacy legislation.

This thing that’s going on right now is even worse.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/03/30/facebook-targeted-victory-attack-rival-tiktok/7224564001/

@shreddy_scientist If they can secure funding for Ukraine they can pull aid for Israel (Israel doesn’t actually need it, a lot of people don’t understand that) and then transfer that business to Ukraine. It will keep Lockheed et. al. happy, and get them invested in lobbying to set up a permanent stream of aid/military support to European countries bordering Russia.

@shreddy_scientist Trying to water it down so they can vote for it without upsetting Israel? That’s not going to work. There is no way to have this both ways. Either everyone will feel the same as they do already or everyone will be upset.

@0x815 U.S. prisons are full of human rights abuses because they are intended to produce human rights abuses.