I feel like there’s a difference between “this car has a recall notice for this part, bring it to a shop near you for a free repair” and “yo dawg your acceleration pedal is broken”

Hot take, I really don’t give a shit who just fucking fix the climate please. I would like to continue to be able to live on the planet.

Makes the challenge of me and my partner finding a unicorn seem easy by comparison.

As a general amount they were fined rather than any true letter of the law amount of a fine thing.

I still remember a conversation I had with a psyche major who had no idea who Phineas Gage was and thought it was an unimportant minor footnote in psych. What a twat.

Actually no, my statement “until recently” was referring to GDPR. I think GDPR is amazing and I’m glad we have it even if I’m an American.

The rest of your statement is fairly factual. The only point I could consider is someone would have to prove the keyboard is tracking us which unless someone at Google wants to whistleblower isn’t the easiest task. Whistleblowers have their own issues to content with.

Let’s be real for a moment, when has legality stopped Google?

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but until relatively recently countries have not been holding Google or other big tech companies to task beyond a measily small percentage of their annual revenue

Help me understand your perspective.

My perspective is, when Trump tweets/truthsocials anyone’s name in a court case about him, said person and person’s family receive death threats, bomb threats and other forms of intimidation.

So for this I see gag orders as important when used for good.

Providing two sources for sauce. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/judge-engoron-staff-death-threats-antisemitic-attacks-1234894395/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/11/bomb-threat-judge-ny-fraud-trial/