Who benefits from the government buying 50% overvalued shares? And when these companies inevitably fail, why should half the cost be soialized?

Their prices have already been hiked up by way more than the SD

This would be simple. This would also not address the fundamental issue which is identification of bots vs. humans which are quietly destroying the online advertising industry (which, yeah, good riddance), which is what motivated Meta to lobby for online age verification to begin with. So it would fulfil the official purpose of age verification, but not it’s real purpose

afaik it’s straight up the opposite for the california law. I didn’t read it myself, but from what I read online about it, they require a boolean “adult/minor” and forbid any other data collection related to age

Not really, because when an employee fails their task it’s the employee’s responsibility, and if it’s catastrophic enough it can lead to firings or lawsuits. But as soon as it’s a chatbot, the liability fully rests on the company. How long will insurance protect those companies too?

The issue is that those bots are worse in completely unpredictable ways. Like when some airline passengers were given incorrect information which led to the airline being sued and having to pay the made up offer as well as damages & tribunal fees. The bots might be unhelpful, but to the disservice of the company’s financials

Could be a missclick tbh

Also the amount of bots (including, to a limited amount, private openclaw bots browsing the web) means that ads served are not really delivered to many humans (and said bots are really getting good at bypassing traditional captchas) & that destroys the value proposition of ads. That’s why Meta lobbies so hard for age verification – they want to be able to distinguish humans from bots, as they used to be able to

I like feminine/twink guys, so everyone recommending big buff guys 💀💀

But I’m a gay guy so not the target of OP’s question 😅 I just barged in because it’s a dry desert in terms of my preferences out there 💀

Shouldn’t have looked

They have quite a bit of work to do though, with all the slander they’ve endured.

I don’t know of examples of dual licensing (maybe redhat?) But Wordpress is a GPL project that still has an industry around it

Aside from the means to end life on earth, what power do they even hold??

Straight up no? A ton of discoveries were made by people just trying to prove they were right and discovering they were wrong by doing so. It’s not curiosity, it’s not frustration, it’s a method (born of both curiosity and frustration)

It wasn’t really Singapore-based; the Chinese company relocated to Singapore to circumvent the Chinese regulations on sales to the US, that’s why they put a stop to it

Even in the EU there isn’t really an alt store ecosystem apart from the epic game store

Chinese death sentences are usually imprisonment unless a new crime is commited, and generally reserved for corruption & other crimes where people nuke trust in public institutions for personal gain

Holy, and I thought “Vöedtæmhtëhactått” was bad

They’re nvidia, they don’t care if the shovels they’re selling won’t dig any gold

Nooo don’t let the Chinese subvention a total transition to clean energy!!1!!! 💀💀💀