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Josh Hawley Wants In On The TikTok Moral Panic Attention, Proposes Nationwide Ban

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Insurrectionist sprinter Josh Hawley has joined the growing chorus of GOP politicians who’ve spent years doing jack shit about U.S. consumer privacy abuses, and now want to pretend that banning a single app — TikTok — will protect American consumers from a problem they themselves created.

Josh Hawley Wants In On The TikTok Moral Panic Attention, Proposes Nationwide Ban

BMW Further Embraces Making Basic Features A Costly Subscription Service

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

from the sorry-seatbelts-are-extra dept
Wed, Jan 11th 2023 05:22am – Karl Bode

Last year BMW took ample heat for its plans to turn heated seats into a costly $18 per month subscription in numerous countries. As we noted at the time, BMW is already including the hardware in new cars and adjusting the sale price accordingly. So it’s effectively charging users a new, recurring fee to enable technology that already exists in the car and consumers already paid for.

BMW Further Embraces Making Basic Features A Costly Subscription Service

Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new phone spying operation

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new phone spying operation

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Rubio’s Bill To Ban TikTok Is A Dumb Performance That Ignores The Real Problem

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For several years we’ve noted how most of the calls to ban TikTok are bad faith bullshit made by a rotating crop of characters that not only couldn’t care less about consumer privacy, but are directly responsible for the privacy oversight vacuum TikTok (and everybody else) exploits.

Rubio’s Bill To Ban TikTok Is A Dumb Performance That Ignores The Real Problem

Related:

Senate passes bill banning TikTok from government devices

If You Thought The FTC Was Going To Fuck Over Elon, Just Wait Until He Learns About The EU

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

We’ve already pointed out that the new Twitter under Elon Musk may be facing some big challenges from the FTC in the US. The company is under a consent decree, and it’s not clear that Musk is complying with the terms of the consent decree. And unlike SEC violations, violating an FTC consent decree can hurt. Between the FTC and the DOJ, they can make it hurt. The fact that basically all of the remaining Twitter execs whose necks were on the line for potentially violating the FTC consent decree quit at the same time should tell you something (I guarantee it told the FTC something).

If You Thought The FTC Was Going To Fuck Over Elon, Just Wait Until He Learns About The EU

Big Tech Keeps Withholding Data that Could Help Solve Assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

RIO DE JANEIRO – Four-plus years after the assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco (38), social media giant Facebook has yet to provide investigators with the full stored data of Internet users who visited her social media account prior to the double homicide.

Big Tech Keeps Withholding Data that Could Help Solve Assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco