Why nostr folks should know about forced divestiture of tiktok from CCP-linked Bytedance
Also, ITM slave
None at all, because it's just about forcing a sale of a division of a firm owned by a foreign adversary
You can read yourself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR7521%22%7D
who's "we"? the CCP?
No one is changing Section 230 provisions. Courts have held this up considerably and there is no evidence it's in danger now.
It does none of that. It's a bill to force a sale.
Section 230 made the Internet what it is. Setting up exemptions among Internet platforms would effectively weaken it, and that would harm free speech online.
You're being misled. You can read the bill here:
Check my feed of notes for more as I worked on this issue.
There are many things to say about a TikTok forced divestiture, but the slippery slope argument doesn’t apply one iota.
Not popular to say here, but it’s a good bill. And always good for nostr
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Love and respect, Sir Odell, but not correct.
Looking at the bill, it's entirely limited to forced divestiture of a specific social media video app owned by a firm in a state deemed to be a "foreign adversary," which is strictly defined in US code: North Korea, Iran, China, Cuba, Russia, and Venezuela.
There is no legal way to apply this to any other technology, company, or entity. It's actually a good thing if we care about getting people off CCP spyware.
I wrote about it here:
https://consumerchoicecenter.org/the-best-answer-to-tiktok-is-a-forced-divestiture/
As for Section 230, the cases before the Supreme Court this term are appeals where tech firms won and strengthened Section 230, and most legal observers say they have no chance. I'm inclined to agree. The only way to undo Section 230 is by Congress. In case that happens, there would be plenty of good privacy and tech advocates battling against that.
As for free speech and nostr, there are a lot of lessons and nostr is well placed as a decentralized protocol. Very bullish.
I just wouldn't take the arguments of the TikTok lawyers too seriously, since CCP want to expand their social credit score system. Maybe that's why they got their military to hack everyone's credit scores in the US:
https://thespectator.com/topic/chinese-communist-party-credit-history-equifax/
I have an article in the Orange County Register about how a group of climate lawyers, woke law schools, and green NGOS are using novel legal theories in left-leaving courts to likely significantly harm American consumers’ access to energy
aiming to run a self-hosted ghost instance and the biggest issue I'm having right now is the mailgun API and SMTP. Most devs on ghost just assume everyone uses gmail.
I know nothing about capital gains tax because I'm not selling
Well. nostr:npub1dznhhga669k20k8rjzmls6lu5uhkus9s3xcg3t2f3quswnc2sdqs5v4dfn - possibly worth visiting https://podnews.net/article/embedding-spotify-podcast-player with your network tab open (and filtered to "media"). Yikes.
Which one should podcasters generally embed as the "standard"?
this is nice. I'm trying out open-source apps, especially random ones from Github.
Running cashu has been impossible. They need better guides
what's your favorite desktop app to run on linux?
finally joined team ThinkPad