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Likely because the manufacturer used of off the shelf hardware that just happened to have GPS built in? That's just how these things go, it's easier to just use pre designed hardware for what you need, even if it has functionalities you won't use.

Hell, I'd argue that the vast majority of computer hardware out there isn't using half of the features that it has.

Just because features are there doesn't mean they're used, and definitely doesn't automatically mean that there are evil or nefarious intentions with its design

W?

A crurl racist pedophile rapist removes protections against rape for a vulnerable minority

Well I for one am shocked and did not see this coming! Get fucked by an umbrella, you assholes

How about just making sure that rape doesn't happen anymore AT ALL in US prisons? It's seriously wild that "don't drop your soap now!" os a joke because its funny because rape in US jails is so normalized that we went from outrage to just lolling about it.

bombed

Chernobyl

Two words I'd never imagine seeing together in the same sentence

Whoever decided to do this should go toes first through a wood chipper

So European countries are dropping out while the non European Israel can continue.

Mmmmm, one wonders how that happened. One also wonders if these people that decided to boycott Eurovision over this are antisemitesor just people with a heart.

Fuck the Israeli government.

Jail Netanyahu, retreat all your forces back into Israel, allow an independent Palestinian state, pay reparations to Palestine state, beg all Palestinians forgiveness for your 5+ decades crimes, then beg the world for forgiveness for calling everyone that protested their crimes and antisemite, and then maybe maybe maybe they should be allowed back into the world.

So here is an idea:

Ban companies from buying other companies.

Period

It always ends well for a very select few, it never ends well for the consumers

I know, and as I said, it's something that I was writing as a quick idea, there are better ways, for sure

My point was though that social media is ruining kids, and that is something that needs a fix.

I'm not saying my way is perfect (still better than what governments are trying), I'm saying we need something

Oooh, ooh, I know this one, me me me, teacher, me me!

Yes and no

Call it a nanny state but companies have been abusing kids to help and back with social media which, IMHO is a much, MUCH bigger problem than porn. I'm all for a ban on social media for kids under 18 at least.

I fully agree that we need privacy and a system should be put in place that does t spy on the citizens bu at the same time we do need protections for the citizens

The entire "he who sacrifices privacy for security" is a bad faith argument. Tell that to a 70yo granny who just lost all of her life savings to scammers. Tell that to the 15 year old that just committed suicide due to some social media bullshit. Tell that to the countless teenagers wrestling with anxiety and can't get themselves away from social media anymore because companies refined their algorithms so far that they're addicting as fuck.

That is where governments are supposed to step in. Not everything should be legal or else we should also permit owning weapons grade plutonium. Yes, that is an extreme, but its to show that we need limits and the question is where

Yes, government can be abusive and very much on the wrong side, like with the marijuana prohibition that broke and ended countless lives. Now Europe wants to spy in all chats FFS.

Those are great examples.of bad government control but just because these bad examples exist doesn't meant hat any government control is bad

I would favor an age verification system that is guaranteed anonymous. That shouldn't be too hard to setup if the government gives out codes to the citizens, and they can give independent non profit foundations a list of the codes with only the birthdate. Citizen supplies the anonymous code to website, website requests age at foundation, that's it.

Foundation can't legally reveal to government (or anyone for that matter) what code visited what, and the foundation doesn't know what code is what citizen

It's just a random idea written on the toilet, I'm sure there are better algorithms out there to do this, but the point is that it can be done in a fair, dependable and anonymous way.

We need SOME control, no control just doesn't work.

At least apply the controls to all the big players for starters

Have my upvote

There are always a few shitty players out there. There are European companies that support Israel in their genocide. Just because a few companies do so, doesn't mean that an entire country does so

Fuck off

If you can't see the difference between the batt majority of a country and a few shitty players then go have a talk somewhere else. While at it, take your 51st state bullshit and shove it where the light won't shine