As the Dominion lawsuit proved beyond a doubt, you gotta read a Murdoch publication like people used to read Pravda to get the real news.

"Major shift in policy..." -- somebody (Meta) realized their was cash to be made and phoned the politician they owned to call in the favor.

TikTok is likely correct in their claims that nothing would change as far as national security. In fact, the ONLY thing that would change is that the data vacuum would end on Meta servers instead.

Oh, silly me. I forgot about the constitutional distinction between "well regulated militia" and "validated gang member" when it comes to the second amendment.

Yes, they are. Probably true. As is this. Honestly, could you imagine a security service (in the real world) that wouldn't try this?

Let the country who isn't running psyops cast the first stone.

When it comes to not helping, you don't know who I am or what I am doing but you sure are driven by your arrogant self assurance that you are in a position to lecture me.

True, but I was looking to bait someone into arguing that "lists" are somehow innocuous and not used for harassment and (as shown here in clear war crimes territory) even worse.

Clearly, you're not going to make that argument and that's good.

Seeing the applications of "lists" in practice, it adds a bit of context to Greg Abbott's Texas wanting a list of trans kids so badly.