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Have you missed the last decade where companies from all around the globe do this exact thing all the time because gathering your information is their business?

Google and Facebook get caught doing it constantly. Just this week a lawsuit against Google was given the green light for gathering data when they were not supposed to. And isn't Facebook currently trying to illegally merge WhatsApp and Facebook data? Didn't the last US president complain about the EU stepping in to protect their citizens about this? Don't pretend this is some "evil China" problem.

Spotify is not the corporate middle man. The big record companies are. Any musician is free to not put their music on spotify and to not sell the rights to a record company. They can then let you stream a song for $50 on their website.

It's also absolutely ridiculous that you champion those who want to make more money while also saying that everyone on the other end who wants to spend less should "stop whining".

Musicians have complained in the past and threatened to leave and some have left... just to then come back.

Wait - how are you responsible for the fact that the artists sign away their rights to shitty big labels that take the majority of the money that work generates? How are you responsible for dumb decisions musicians make?

The fact that they're showing up at Spotify's offices then shows even more why they're not making money. They seemingly don't understand the business they're in... at all.

They sign shitty contracts that leave them with "virtually nothing" and then complain to someone who is not responsible for them having "virtually nothing".

> I lived in 2 European countries with amazing healthcare systems available for free or almost free but had either: amazingly long waiting times (measured in years) for anything but the most basic interventions OR an amazingly difficult process to get referred by your GP into any specialist care (GP generally recommends paracetamol and rest for everything).

Which countries would those be?

That's not true. You can use any racial slur in Germany to describe said slur. The laws only ever apply to insults, which have to be directed at someone. There's no "N-word" equivalent where people talk about a specific word but then somehow don't say it.

It's well-known how Robinhood makes money. They sell data they have based on tracking their user's habits within the app.

This "it's free so what do people expect" is such a ridiculously lame excuse as well. No, it's not free. The user is just not the one paying. If the app sells the data and offers a service in exchange then they better offer that service.

> Many societies did this in the past, but as it's "no longer economically viable," no one cares today.

Can you name a few?

I'm not sure I understand what he's getting at.

> The conventional approaches don’t work because while we can sustain eating less for a while, eventually the hunger gets us because we’re semi-starving ourselves.

So it's all about calories then but people just have a hard time consuming less calories and he wants to make it easier for them? Well okay but it's still absolutely about calories just like it's always been and always will be.

But a pigeon can only live for about six years.

Popper also specifically said: "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise."

I absolutely believe it. The main thing you have to take care of is the community spread and that's easy to control if you can control the community and that's pretty easy for the chinese government.

They probably do have more cases (like all other countries do as well), but the measures are way more effective if you don't have to care about people's personal freedoms.

So which country would you want to take the lead. Or phrased differently: Which country's army do you think doesn't have far right people in it?

> Russia also regularly crosses neighbouring countries' (Sweden, Finland, Alaska, etc.) borders with fighter planes, boats and submarines.

That's something all capable militaries do on a regular basis. "Accidentally", of course. The US does this, Russia does it, China does it and so on. While it's of course not nice, it's disingenuous to use it in any kind of argument.

Germany: Every person over the age of 18 is automatically registered to vote. The right to vote cannot be lost.

Every registered voter gets a letter some time before the election and if you want to vote by mail you have to send the letter back for free and they'll send everything over. The ballots have to be received by the end of the day of election. There's a lot of time so you won't miss that date. The letter you get to remind you of voting also contains information about where you have to be to vote in person.

There's very little last minute changes in Germany. The election is not decided in the last couple of weeks before the election, people have made up their minds at that point.

I think the crucial part is that there's absolutely no effort involved. You basically show up at the polling place on the Sunday of the election and you're good to go. If you're too lazy for that you can to everything by mail. If you decide to vote by mail and then forget to send it via the post you can just drop it off at the polling station as well.

> At least the US has the excuse of being huge, which does make it much harder to provide good coverage.

That could be an excuse if you ignore the fact that the terrible service is not limited to rural regions in the US. It's often really expensive and slow even in places that are packed with people.

> Incidentally, this is the same concern that archivists and historians have --- that our present era may be so concerned with secrecy that nothing remains of common life, and only "carefully curated" information survives.

That's a weird take, imo. They then must be absolutely thrilled when they find out about that thing called the internet. The carefully curated information with a billion likes is nothing more than a drop compared to the vast ocean of mundane nonsense that gets posted every day. Just because the carefully curated content gets the most attention doesn't mean that everything else is not out there. And never before has it been easier to find that stuff.

Are there any big differences between iOS and Android versions?

Isn't the number of Americans wanting to emigrate into other first world countries (Austria, Norway, Germany, etc) at an all time high, though?

To be fair, pretty much every country aside from Germany is whitewashing their past with the help of the media. Some call it propaganda, some call it patriotism, some call it "promoting of state policy" but it's all the same thing.

> There you go. While they're at it, try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously.

It doesn't get removed. Neither does LGBT content or Hong Kong protest content for that matter. Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.

So you're in favor of the EU forcing Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft to sell their European business to European companies then because those American companies are clearly not up to European privacy standards?

We literally know for a fact that American companies do all the things the Trump administration is accusing TikTok of doing. We've known this since the Snowden revelations.

It's also a 100% different scenario because European and American companies actively decide to not operate in China. If they want to they have to comply with the local laws. Just like European companies in the US or US companies in Europe have to. The fact that the big tech companies are not there is the result of a decision by the companies.

All companies operating in the US have to follow US law. The fact that the government can just say "You can't operate anymore" without giving any evidence of what they're accusing you of is problematic.

Authoritarian regimes are not authoritarian because they don't have laws. They are because they have laws that cover all kinds of bullshit and if you look at the countries that are most authoritarian (Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea), you'll see that they argue "national security" all the time.

I'm not trying to be a negative nancy here but from what you write you really don't seem to understand the potential risks of medical trials or how they work. I'm not saying you should not participate but you seem a bit misinformed.

> the researchers involved know what they are doing and would never push something like this if it weren't safe

No, they do all the time. They do not know if it's safe. They don't have enough indication that it's unsafe. There's a huuuge difference. That's what the trials are for: To find out if they're safe and work. Both assertions can only be made after the trials.

> I will be one of the first people in the world with an immunity against SARS-CoV-2

Millions already are.

Just read the papers you'll sign carefully so you don't go into all of this while not being 100% informed.

> You did not address the fundamental point which is that an Executive Order can be challenged in a Court of Law - it will be, in fact.

> Do you think a decision by the CCP, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-Un or Mohammad Bin Salman would be afforded the same level of guarantees?

Yes, absolutely. It happens all the time. Those rulers use _the laws afforded to them_ to rule. It's completely wrong to suggest that they just do whatever the hell they want. That's just not the case at all. Please look into the topic. Those countries have laws that make it very, very easy for the rulers to justify doing whatever they want.

MBS can put you in jail for live not because he's free to do whatever he wants but because the laws are designed in a way that gives him every reason to justify putting anyone in jail - as I mentioned, usually based on national security grounds.

Those very same national security reasons that authoritarian regimes constantly use are being used by Trump.

So yes, Trump being able to claim something a national security issue without having to provide proof, without giving the accused a chance to take a look at the evidence that supposedly exists against them, without them being able to defend themselves from the accusations, that's exactly what authoritarian regimes do.

I'm not sure what you're on about. Authoritarian states do have laws to justify what they do. Even Saudi Arabia has them. You can get a lawyer, you can get a judge to review your case, you can appeal decisions. They do have separation of power as well.

Read up about the countless cases in those countries. Enforcing national security laws are very, very often the reason for the most fucked up judgements. All those cases from North Korea? Yep, national security without verifiable proof of how it endangers national security.

> China is an authoritarian regime, not a democracy under the rule of law. There are laws in China, but ultimately a corporation is subject to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party.

Would you say it's kind of like the US President being able to just ban things he just says are threats to National Security? All of the authoritarian regimes have laws that specifically allow them to do what they do. They're usually authoritarian because they can and do call everything they don't like a threat to National Security.

Where is the actual proof here? Where can everyone take a look at it?

The dude on Reddit is most likely a fraud, though. There's just nothing that indicates that he reverse engineered anything whatsoever. There's just no proof for anything at all.

Every single thing he said was known publicly before _and_ he somehow missed the copy&paste api call that was made known with iOS 14? That's weird considering he supposedly did reverse engineering.

He also said that there were regular http calls, which is literally impossible on iOS since at least 2016 (Apple guidelines).

This dude repeated widely known things in a way that made them sound terrible. His "research" contains zero things we didn't know before.

Hell, people have offered him sums of money for proof as well. He's a script kiddie who intercepted some packages on his home network.

The LGBTQ+ community on TikTok is actually ridiculously huge. The videos using the LGBT and LGBTQ hash tags have a combined view count of more than 50 billion.

Maybe you're talking about the chinese app, because LGBTQ+ is doing great on the regular TikTok.

Maybe I missed something but an American law would be required to answer the question I asked.