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Government can put you in jail this is not a slope we want to grease.

Private "censorship" is localized and fairly harmless.

The difference is companies used to decide what piece of content to nuke now it's the government doing it which is a big no-no.

Well it's the textbook definition of censorship i.e government deciding the content media platforms are allowed to publish/carry.

It's codified censorship.

The EU's war is on US companies. They wouldn't be playing fast and loose with these regulations if their home born companies were the ones getting disadvantaged.

They push draconian surveillance laws then claim sainthood when they go after Facebook.

I guess you can hate Facebook et al and welcome this stuff but it's hard to deny how these laws are basically trade barriers aimed at the US tech industry.

It's an issue of the Canadian government getting duped by private equities who own Canadian newspapers to pass rent seeking laws and frame it as being tough on tech or whatever they think is political savvy nowadays.

As stated advertising on children's videos is legal and commonplace, so singling out yt is a little weird. The whole situation is a bit of a paradox to be honest.

What does that have to do with anything? The article isn't suggesting YouTube tracked children it's suggesting an advertiser's website did.

*As with children’s television, it is legal, and commonplace, to run ads, including for adult consumer products like cars or credit cards, on children’s videos. There is no evidence that Google and YouTube violated their 2019 agreement with the F.T.C.*

Because clicking a yt ad might land someone on a website with tracking cookies on it?

You could say the same thing about Google search or any website with outgoing links for that matter.

They published followup papers on fusion ignition and strange muon behavior respectively.

It was interesting seeing real peer reviewed science from accredited labs like LLNL and Fermi get brushed aside and almost dismissed while people were cheering on this LK-99 thing.

Not sure what to make of that but that's what I'll remember most about this debacle.

I think that's what you'd call a "humble brag".

Bragging about your sunspider score is like bragging about how many myspace followers you have.

Besides I'm not sure how much these benchmark tests are relevant to real world performance anyway.

Some popular products,sure.

Much of the listed "casualties" were throwaway wrapper apps that have perfectly fine webapp replacements, apps for platforms that no longer exist, duplicates, and stand alone apps that are now features of bigger apps etc.

Exactly. I was pointing out that not every app/service has to be preserved and supported forever.

Yeah wouldn't want it to go the way of Google Toolbar, that thing would definitely be relevant today.

Login with Google.

Cars are bigger now because emissions rules are stricter for sedans and other reasonably sized vehicles, it's a yet another cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of government regulations.

He's barely covering his own legal fees

Using user generated data to train an AI is no different than scanning it for spam or any other administrative function, and using public data to train your AI model is fair use and everyone should get over it already.

All this LK-99 related activity is exciting and all, too bad Twitter hype merchants hijacked the narrative (first Al now superconductivity they got them in every flavor it seems).

It's important to remember that scientists are people too and they'll bandwagon trending claims to get their name out there.

I'm no expert but the videos here are far from convincing and the other paper about simulating LK-99 is just that a simulation and parameters can be manipulated to induce almost any outcome.

They're just reporting the news how you react to it is up to you

I agree

There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it.

What's happening here is that publishers and their owners somehow figured these pesky internet wiz kids owe them more money.

Liberal politicians will pass any law seen as harmful to US tech companies consequences be damned.

It's like California but on a national level, still not quite as insane thankfully.

This deal isn't special, the data is priced in, and unless you want to ground all acquisitions to a halt this is how it should be.

You want companies to consult users on M&A decisions? What's next cookie consent style popups but for merger contracts?

Guess that's how these deals work. Would you rather they shut it down?

This administration selected the current FTC commissioner because of an op-ed attacking Amazon and a glowing profile both published in the New York Times.

The FTC lawsuits against Meta and now Amazon are politically motivated and are a misuse of the the system if not outright corruption.

Hedge funds buy up a bunch of newspapers and publishers then lobby for laws to force online platforms to channel money their way, lobby the DOJ and now they're suing and playing the victim.