It's almost as if they aren't considering the best interests of the public or the government/economy that they are dismantling.

This reddit thread¹ details thoroughly the connection to Meta (Facebook) and to a lesser extent Discord as being behind the push in the US.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...

Did you read it? It does neither of those things. It establishes that Meta is fighting to amend these regulatory bills to push onus onto operating systems and Discord isn’t named once in the OP.

Your username is appropriate.

From rfk: “Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her. “

That’s more than fighting to amend. I’m not sure where I got the discord connection but I thought it was from that link. I’ve read a few things on this subject recently so I may have mixed up two different sources.

Obviously Discord is related. I can simultaneously support age constraints and also *not want my child’s 18th birthday leaked under any circumstances*.

You can buy a cellular data plan for your laptop. Just plug in a 5g radio to your usb port or in some laptops you can even install it internally in a dedicated pcie slot.

Carrier approval is not the reason phones are locked down. If it were then rooting android devices wouldn’t be possible.

The marginal cost of one extra passenger is going to be very nearly zero. The vast majority of the cost is just moving the bus / train / plane, and the overhead / inefficiencies in the system. I've seen somewhere the numbers for one passenger on trains and planes but I can't remember where that was. Just know it is a very very small amount for the added weight of one more passenger.

Yes, I know, and marginal numbers would also be great to have. But just the naive cost of energy per passenger-kilometer averaged would be good to see, given that it too would be much less than that of a private car.

Yes, similarly in the US: I think the largest portion of the energy in the US is produced with gas fired power plants.

This will come to other states soon enough.

And apparently, encyclopedia dramatica is also now defunct.

Wikipedia has an endowment big enough to sustain the site's basic maintenance, essentially forever. If donations disappeared then they would have to severely cut spending, however, I don't think it would be an existential threat.

Yeah this whole story reads like propaganda to me.

> This is the approach US population prefers.

Most of the population has very little leverage and is highly manipulated. It's the approach of a few who wield all of the power while the rest of us are either dismayed or distracted.