Phillaholic

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“The Leopards won’t eat my face”

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It’s not hypocrisy. There’s no obligation to treat companies or people outside of the US the same as in the US. National security is a different beast all together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Remove it from app stores, end any dependencies with US partners etc.

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

They will comply with any court order. They won’t hand over unfettered access like TikTok has to in China.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It’s not great, but no public company has the ability to start a war with the US and utilize that data for that purpose.

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

The US doesn’t do anything close to the scale of the French.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about pre-roll ads for other shows on the platform? That was the norm before Netflix. HBO has done it for most of their existence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard this before too. TikTok is particularly bad, but twitch was worse than YouTube. Not sure about any of these newer ones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Also libertarianism only exist in theory / ideals. No society exists under it in any meaningful way. Their ideas have never been tested to the point where the consequences of their action have not been clearly seen.

They want to think everything is black or white, but in reality it’s different shades of gray.