Illegal only applies when the law is an enforced deterrence. If the fine is low enough, it’s the price of doing business. If it’s hard to sue or there’s no enforcement, the law may as well not exist. Unfortunately, with these large companies it’s been both: low fines and long lawsuits, so by the time they pay a fine, they have earned 100x the fine in a month or so

EULA has T&C that the first users agree to when they fast forward with the accept accept accept accept screens

Never seen anyone try to drive established successful businesses into ground this hard. (Trump can bankrupt anything but that’s Trump being Trump)

Tesla cars were coveted and now any new Tesla carries a fascist undercurrent.

Twitter was an ok ok platform and he spurred the entire fediverse (and bluesky) into overdrive.

Starlink was a monopoly and cruising to victory and now multiple countries have decided to compete and intentionally not sell it spectrum.

I’d add TS to the dumpster fire. It’s a gilded pile of poop

Crack spread eh