“Radicalizing” does a lot of undue heavy lifting here. Obeying the Constitutional order and basic human rights, as well as having basic human dignity is no way radical. It’s called being a decent person.

With the wording of “data producers”, it feels more aimed at multimedia than software.

Which seems a reasonable idea. Streaming is a large use on bandwith and charging a tax for it does make sense.

What would make even more sense is the law being properly defined and not overly borad, abd giving small platforms either an exemption or a discount by making the tax progressive. Currently though, the proposal seems overly broad and not at all thought through.

The argument makes sebse for some things but not for others.

Take water bottles. Or mugs. Having 15 of them collecting dust in a drawer is suboptimal. Therefore no one should own one and rent it from a muglord.

There’s a balance to be found, and I’d say RAM is more of a commodity than cars are. The fact it’s not 99.999% utilized, unlike a certain someone’s wishes is a feature of life and not a bug of capitalism not yet being post late stage.

I mean, he ain’t wrong.

Shareholders don’t value stability.or the lobg term. They value short term profit. What happens to the company or products after is less than an afterthought.

Even though it dies with the person affected by it, cancer always wins by killing its host in the end. And clearly, in the CEO’s eyes, so should Proton.

Yeah, let’s make a super smart AI to detect AI. That’ll fix all our Linux maintenance problem. Any AI taints the kernel, so using it is inadmissible in every instance.

Hmm…

I’d wager KYC applies either way (anyone placing a bet should be known, not just who ends up winning) and not paying out wins is a clear breach of contract.

So very clearly doubly illegal. First they let any rando gamble, and then they don’t pay out wins.