The US government's entire beef with TikTok is they believe it's spying on Americans for the sake of the Chinese government, as opposed to American social media companies who spy on Americans for the sake of local, state, and federal law enforcement and various intelligence agencies and literally anyone else who is willing to pay for that data.
Which is why they want TikTok sold to an American company willing to hand that data over to them instead of instituting actual privacy regulations.
Europeans and US-Americans getting mad at each other for not understanding that there's not just one monolith culture in each place will never not be funny to me.
Like I'll someone from the US make some negative statement about Europe, and inevitably a European will be like "that's just the Belgians, we're not just one big country like you" or whatever.
Then like turn around and make a sweeping statement about the US that really only applies to like Florida or Texas or something.
Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/
@Tamami @pomegranate_stew - We just had a solar eclipse. Be careful, or we may be seeing the birth of Audrey II.
@aesmael - I try to do it late at night and keep it to 2h 30m of shows. Which is how KENS-TV did their "Saturday Sci-Fi Theater" back in the 80s (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica)
But I've run out of 30 minutes Sci-Fi so it's 3 hours now. Also, I have a ton of shows waiting to be watched, but I don't do it until we end a show.
Also, I rarely Sit-And-Watch TV. It's usually on while I'm doing something else, which is how I've always watched TV.
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