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That argument doesn't have any validity taking in consideration that it was still illegal to sell drugs online. In another words; legally it doesn't mean anything that it was safer to sell drugs online than it is on the streets, both are illegal. I have no sympathy for such "noble" entrepreneurs.

I'm not pro life sentence but the guy who was selling literally tons of narcotics online from which people overdosed and died and the guy who was ordering murders of his narco enemies gets to spend only 10 years in jail is indeed ridiculous. Imo he should've spent 10 years more because this way it seems like he "just" robbed a bank or something and got 10 years and now it's like nothing happened.

I'm stressing it out again, multiple people died from overdose because of him and multiple people were about to get executed because he hired hitman to kill them.

My understanding of Twitter is that it is or was like your official personal Gazette[0] where you could broadcast what you are up to or whatever is on your mind at the moment. It has definitely different use cases for regular users and so for celebrities and government entities.

Also you can think of Twitter as a standalone spinoff of Facebook status updates user behaviour but with hashtags. I actually find Twitter more compelling than Facebook but somehow Twitter's management was able to ruin Twitter. Now we have not only Twitter but X, Threads, Bluesky and Mastadon. It is way too fragmented but imo they should all interop and work as an one ecosystem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazette

I would like to ask Chinese president Xi Jinping when will Google and Facebook be available in China and all the rest of the Western social apps. Can I get any clarity and assurance? Thanks.

Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.

Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.

US is liberal democracy, China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?

>This statement is not entirely accurate. It is possible for a US social media company to operate in mainland China, provided it complies with local regulations, including hosting its servers in China and adhering to censorship requirements.

Read about Google's search engine project in China aka Project Dragonfly[0]; it was a totalitarian dystopian nightmare where CCP wanted to know everything about people who use Google, like their queries and mobile phone numbers and plus they demanded from Google that millions of websites/webpages must be censored (removed from Google's China index).

Project Dragonfly was like Stalin's manifestation of perfect surveillance and propaganda tool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

"Trump is gonna unban us!" - TikTok's wet dream.

US should ban all Chinese software apps and services as long as CCP does not allow Google and Facebook to operate in China. As a matter of fact not only Google and Facebook but all the Western internet social apps and services should be allowed in China. We want equal opportunity and equal rights for business. This way it is not fair play, it is botched market economy.

This only shows how incompetent Twitter's management was; they not only ruined Twitter but Vine too and gave the opportunity to TikTok to fill the massive vacuum.

>To succeed at YouTube make people watch more YouTube.

Yea but how do you do that? By making more compelling content than competitors. That's the basic formula.

So formula for success on YouTube is to be constantly making crazy and then even more crazier videos and hope they become viral so more people discover you?

I knew that even 15 years ago when I was watching crazy pranks pulled by French YouTuber Rémi Gaillard[0]....he was so popular back in the day on YouTube.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Gaillard

Automattic vs. WP Engine will be ultimately decided in court but this sort of reminds me of Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.[0] when Oracle got mad because of Google cashing out hard with Android. It's all about money for Matt....not about WordPress or open source community.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....

Lowlevel meaning low tier not low level/hardware software engineers.*

So lowlevel engineers are already replaced by AI? Lowlevel meaning low tier no low level/hardware software engineers?

This is one of the most stupidest and toxiest moves ever; imagine Google saying: millions of devs and thousands of companies use Golang and they are not contributing as much as we do so we are going to drastically lower our contributions just to sabotage other devs and companies.

I always thought that Airbnb was better version of Booking.com....idk cause I never used neither of them.

His mind is spinning all the time....he wanted to ban both Facebook and TikTok.

Walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and others are the missed opportunities for the Open Web. Google nor any other search engine can't crawl their information, so Web users who are not on the aforementioned sites are missing a lot of useful information and social dynamics that would otherwise take place on the Open Web.

Not all queries are the same but I agree with you that the authority of source is crucial. That's why for example .gov sites rank high and should rank high because government is usually the most trusted source.

But when you are looking for new shoes to buy or food recipes then .gov sites can't help you and that's where things get ugly....SEO spam ugly.

>But "search" and "getting an answer to a question" are two different things, aren't they?

First conceptualization of the "search" were web directories then AltaVista and Google drove the complexity down for the users by providing the actual system which crawls, index and ranks web information. Now cycle will repeat again and we will get Answer Machines aka chat bots which drive the UX complexity for users even more down.

Why would I skim search results links and websites if the "AI" can do it for me. The only reason would be if you don't trust the "AI" and you want the actual links of websites so you can look for useful information by yourself but the majority of people want an instant answer/result to their search query hence Google's old school button "I'm feeling lucky".

It's fascinating to me that Google didn't yet crack the actual discovery of websites and information. Google is constrained to 10 search results by design because majority of people won't ever go to the second search results page. So basically they have to figure out how to put as much useful information and links on the first page of search results. Btw I think we need web directories now more than ever.

That's the real question, because younger generations use less and less Open Web.

That was actually one of the main concerns of Larry Page back in the day, that the majority of Web's information might get and be locked behind walled gardens, paywalls or whatever else.

Cybercrime research; locate malicious actors across social web.

Nice OSINT tool.

In the search bar you must add the option to search by company e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple etc.

>I keep hearing people crow about how Africa is going to get re-colonized by China, but I just don't see it. For instance, in the last 50 years, America and her allies have

China financially and politically backed Pol Pot who murdered more than 1 million Cambodian civilians plus Vietnamese civilians on the border with Cambodia.

China kept quiet when Putin invaded Ukraine because they get oil, gas and minerals from Russia.

They all sin, not just US, UK or whatever great power from the West.

I shared this 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324595

Long story short: Gates and Microsoft were in domination mode and everybody else was in experimentation mode. Microsoft's management are par excellence opportunists.

And if I recall correctly from watching one of the Bill's interviews from the 1990s, he even couldn't believe and wrap his head around why IBM didn't do the OS themselves and why the hell they decided to outsource it to Microsoft.

Yea and that....my bad for not mentioning it.