This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Crypto is a growing concern for a lot of people

What do you mean?

Great meme, even better post description.

What’s funny is that that’s a description of MEV.

gaining access to pending transactions, altering the movement of the electronic currency, and ultimately stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency from their victim

I skipped “fraudulent” because neither MEV bots nor this attack can be called fraudulent imo, although MEV is definitely taking value one didn’t help create.

Let them eat MEV bot operators.

Great things have their start like that, like U.S Cyber Command!

allowing the scraping and evading X’s own anti-scraping technology.

I wonder why evading anti-scraping technology is not treated like bypassing DRM or the DMCAs anti-circumvention rules.

Nobody is really interested in what their step sister is doing, but we don’t really mind finding out, either.

Your username checks out because the difference is a fraction of a cent. What’s more important is who owns the songs made by those musicians, and in the vast majority of cases it’s not the musicians.

The record industry (including streaming) is not worth saving. It’s a parasite.

Is Ubuntu enshittifying?

Wow good find. The revolving door in action.

Crazy that the proposed solution to propaganda is banning media instead of investing in education that promotes critical thinking. Or maybe the idea here is “no propaganda except mine”.

Bernie Sanders has been saying for 30 years that the bill is too damn long! Representatives get very limited time to read bills so they usually don’t and just vote along party lines. This is a form of deception and it’s intentional.

Lol yea. They also maintain control over their big corpos and that must be threatening to the 9 corporations in a trench coat that the U.S. calls a government. Still, the world doesn’t need any more adversarial relationships, thank you very much U.S.A.

U.S. lawmakers can’t force anything on foreign corporations.

If the bill passes in the House and Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, TikTok would eventually be dropped from app stores in the US if its owner doesn’t sell. It also would lose access to US-based web-hosting services.

ByteDance would be banned from the U.S. market and lose it’s webhosting on U.S. servers.

Also, what’s with the “foreign adversary” status of China?

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard always reminds me of this:

https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741

Keep in mind that article is from 1998. Prescient as always, the Onion really is America’s Finest News Source™.