The ‘Tiktok ban’ law is ‘not just a Tiktok ban’ says Sacks. It could be the new Patriot Act. E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more - YouTube ‘The worst ideas are bipartisan.’ This one was 50-0. Not 47.3, not 42.8. There was hardly any debate. The may have been ‘stampeded’ into passing it.
‘My alarm bells go off when DC acts with this kind of unanimity, because the only time they do that, when they become a uniparty, is when the national security state wants some new power. Entry into Iraq War, Patriot Act.’
‘They always cite classification when they don’t want the public to know something.'
If this is about we can't have our apps in China but their are here, and we want to stop that, put it in a trade bill, said Sacks. This isn't in a trade bill, it just gives new powers to the government to define foreign adversary controlled applications and websites.
What does this app do that other apps don't do? It hasn't been shown.
There's so many AGs going after Facebook and Insta and other tech companies, making their bones, and could go after ByteDance, yet none are. Why not? and suddenly 100% support for this law.
Remedy not narrowly tailored, and law will lead to weaponization.
The Patriot Act was written with sunset provisions, but although it expired in 2020 without being reauthorized, government agencies retain most of the authorities granted by the act.
Secret Tiktok Ban Hearings / Lobbying - YouTube
Although there are political differences among people, ‘we should be able to come together on these issues like ... mass surveillance’. ‘It is a major threat to your rights.’
They want to ‘collect data that can’t be collected right now.'
The idea that TikTok is dangeous because it seeds misinformation or discontent in America. ‘No one seeds more discontent than the MSM in the US. They pit political parties against each other on a constant basis.’
‘Vague language is always alarming ... because everyone who is under this legislation is at risk.’
FOSS developers are in every country including foreign adversaries. ‘That doesn’t mean they have misaligned influence.'
Tiktok may be becoming a problem for ‘the Israeli establishiment.’ Billionaires.
The work of journalists going undercover. Those involved are ... taking money from the pro-Israel lobby.
ADL policing speech. APAC funding politiicans, who can fund and run a candidate against you if they don't like your platform or speech.
#Politics
Trudeau's new online censorship law - Problems with Bill C-63 / the Online Arms Law - YouTube
Another State Does Away w/Mandatory Bar Exam for Attorneys - YouTube
DOJ has sued Apple over iPhone monopoly.
One argument: When Apple encounters competitive threats, it doesn't lower prices, but rather imposes a ‘series of shapeshifting rules and restrictions in its App Store guidelines and dev agreements.’ ... ‘Blocks, essentially, that forces people to stay.’
‘Peak Apple’ has been said by some.
To a challenge that Android phone users couldn't send videos to people they knew, Cook responded ‘Buy your mom an iPhone.’
The issue has been talked about in terms of government wants Apple to be integrative with nonApple products. Apple has always had this policy. Consumers are paying for this product.
A sort of ‘democrat’ view is that ‘Apple will keep abusing power until they’re checked' and so they have to be checked. They want ‘the industry to stand for more interoperability’.
Point of reference is when Microsoft (which had 95% of the market at that time for PCs) tried to dominate search with a browser, and how they would have continued. 'They had substantial market power and what they were in the process of doing was the smart thing from the business standpoint. They would have killed the competing browser, then baked their own into Windows, and with that you control search. They were trying to break html and openStandards and using all kinds of funky code. They were telling computer makers that they could get Windows for cheap (or free?) with the browser bundle, or pay $150 each computer without the browser monopoly thing. Same thing Google does on phones with Android basically.
I would probably say that for that particular issue, it is fine as long as the company is small (10% of market or less). Another tactic would be for Android to deny interrelation with Apple until Apple permits it.
Reddit IPOd. How will they monetize?
UK Police Force told: 'Women who criticise gender ideology should be treated as terrorists' - YouTube
#Terrorism
Google fined 250 million euros for using news articles to train chatbot | BBC News - YouTube
A law in US will reduce real estate agent commissions by shifting it from (current) seller pays 6% in a contract when he lists, to buyer and seller each pay 2% or 3% or so. No buyer will agree to this, it is considered. They can look on Redfin and go look at the house themselves.
The current way is considered to be a kind of a racket, which only works because the seller pays it and is sort of force to.
You buy a house for $1m and then sell it for $1.1, but have to pay $60k to an agent. A great service by an agent might get $1.2 whereas a bad one might get 800k.
They might remove half the fees in the industry this way.
Agents might start to work hourly. Or they might change a fee rather than a commission, for various homebuying services. Or a flat rate plus percentage ($1m house means $10k, plus 10% over that price ... or and 20% for the next hundred K over the price), flat fee guaranteed plus commission for performance.
Opportunity for startups, leveraging AI.