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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • about laws in general

    Terms of Service aren’t laws. Breaking them is not illegal. It’s like using the waterslide while sitting and not lying on your back. In fact, it’s explicitly legal to use an adblocker and control what happens on your device in both the EU and the US. There are ongoing debates whether the surveillance required for blocking adblockers is legal in the EU.

    Google does break laws all the time by the way, and is holding a monopoly. If people had to pay for Youtube, alternatives would spring up overnight, but since you can still watch Youtube free, they can’t.

    Also, I’d be the happiest person if Google finally figured out how to block people with adblockers completely, so that the majority of people would wean themselves off of one of the world’s biggest disinfo peddlers.





  • Tencent would never allow it.

    The US has a sale-or-ban order in force right now, it is not up to Tencent, but the Taco King right now.

    Besides it’s software, that has no subsidiaries.

    You must mean assets. I’m talking about the legal entity, that’s what subsidiary means, a local US sub-company owned by the Chinese parent company. US Tiktok operations are owned by the local US subsidiary Tiktok Inc, incorporated in California, owned by Bytedance. That ownership relation is entirely regulated by US law.

    In this case there is nothing to steal.

    $10 billion in US revenue, the market share and the cultural, societal and political impact of the platform is there for the taking.