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Germany has always been one of the worst countries when it comes to copyright. Stuff on YouTube that just gets extra commercials slapped on it gets outright blocked over there. I think their expiration limits are longer than ours too.

Yeah. And those people are too few and powerless to even get noticed, let alone affect policy. And, as we saw when the FTC actually tried to enforce COPPA against YouTube, their enemies are very effective at manipulating the narrative to make them look like they're just the same group of people...

That's a pretty radical assumption. Are there stats backing this up? Like I said yesterday, people who actually care about kids probably do not make up a significant lobby or voting bloc. And I don't count parents who care about their own kids but not anyone else's as part of that group.

They don't have to pretend very convincingly because the only people they're trying to appease are just pretending too. People who actually care about protecting kids online either don't exist or aren't a significant lobby. The state of the internet for the past 30 years should be proof enough...

The US was garbage to start with. Founded by religious fanatics and slave owners, built on slavery and genocide, sustained by exploiting other poorer countries. The only thing we've ever done to make the rest of the world a better place was remove ourselves from it.

I don't think the US deserves to recover, ever. I think it should collapse like Rome, and serve as a cautionary tale to the rest of the world. Because the way things are going, it's probably the only thing that'll save them from the same fate.

Honestly at this point every website should just blanket block access from the UK. Either they repeal the law or they just don't have an internet anymore.

Not just whoever made the decision to brick it, everyone whose designs contributed to it being physically possible to do in the first place.

And because they know their supporters are too stupid to know a tariff is a tax. And possibly they don't actually care what the rest of us do or don't know.

I'm more concerned about the millions of people who were damaged enough to vote for them. There have always been people like her around, but typically they'd be written off as the crazy ranting hobo on the subway.

"Yeah, well, you got hit by like, five ticks of rainbow." - (I like this one because it mixes the nonsense with actual gamer speak)

That happens to me too.

And he's getting paid military-spending money, so probably pretty close to retail and still an order of magnitude more than they're worth.

Probably not by a wide margin, though. Maybe not even enough to cancel out the number of openly-trans people in the US. A bigger gap would probably come from how many more liberal women just don't bother to get married at all.

If this was a deliberate attempt to hide specific parts from the public, it's a really sloppy one. They just cut off Article 1 halfway through Section 8 and called it a day, right in the middle of a sentence no less. Maybe that's the idea, aiming to pass it off as an honest mistake if anyone...

Nobody does anymore. "The customer is always right" has trickled all the way up to top-level management (but only if the customer is bitching about insipid things, not if they're expecting actual basic consumer protections that should be a universal human right).

What a wild age we live in where, simultaneously, we have AI-generated fakes being passed off as products of real human labor and products real human labor being passed off as AI-generated fakes. It's like if real chess-playing computers existed side-by-side with Mechanical Turks, or if there...

Weren't we calling for this exact same thing to happen when Republicans refused to show up for work in Oregon?

It is honestly amazing that people haven't figured out how to abuse it to spread misinformation yet.

It is, however, a pretty good representation of the level of quality we'd expect to see if Trump were in charge of the automotive industry.