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caladanian said:

What has trust to do with it? Either you follow the rules within the laws or not. You can’t distrust preventively without them making a mistake with their new developer account – after all I can understand. 

What's so hard to understand? Epic flagrantly violated the rules once already, and is a known malicious actor. Epic dragged Apple through a costly court battle, only to have it confirmed that Epic broke the rules, and have all its demands denied. Apple has every reason to believe Epic will do it again. What you're saying is that a retailer must allow a known shoplifter into the store because you don't know if he is going to shoplift this time! 

Xed said:

Michae1 said:

All the glib comments worry me a little.  This year alone a federal court found our government guilty of working with big social media platforms to sensor free speech, while the attorney general issued a memo to the FBI allowing parents who speak out at school board meetings to be classified as ‘domestic terrorists. Now we see a report that our government is using our technology to track us.  Aren’t we past the point for jokes?

Don't be a sucker. Step away from Facebook and stop being duped by Jim Jordan and his ilk.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/19/facebook-posts/no-fbi-isnt-adding-threat-tags-parents-who-protest/

Don't be deliberately ignorant.

1. A current FBI agent testified under oath that he was personally asked to go to a school board meetings, and record the license-plate numbers of the parent in attendance.
2. The DOJ issued memo listing all the statutes under which parents could conceivably be charged, just for engaging in their First Amendment protected right to free speech on issues concerning the education of their children. 
3. The documents released by Twitter proved that multiple government agencies ordered and directed the censoring of our free speech rights at several social media companies. Two federal courts found this proof convincing enough that they barred the Biden Administration, its agencies, and specific persons within them, from communicating with any of those social media companies. That is am extreme remedy, but fitting given the extreme violations of civil rights that occurred. 

None of this speculation - it is proven fact, and the worst violation of our Free Speech rights by our Government since the founding of our Republic. 

The BBC today is a clearly left-biased, woke, and anti-reality organization that is blatantly pushing a globalist agenda. It doesn't matter if the BBC leadership is Liberal or Conservative. It only matters that they lie shamelessly, and their 'news' programs are filled with propaganda. No one with a triple digit IQ would believe anything they say without independent corroboration. Saying you work for the BBC is not the flex you think it is. 

The author should stick to his area of expertise. His comment "The UK's calamitous decision to leave the European Union has left it with a raft of systemic problems" is both off-topic and incredibly stupid. Half those problems were caused by joining that dysfunctional organization run by tyrannical, woke bureaucrats. The UK is overrun by immigrants who are bankrupting their social services. It was the EU that made this possible, and this was one of the key drivers of the Brexit movement. The EU-imposed regulations, 'human rights' obligations, and 'open economy' destroyed the UK's manufacturing base, which is part of the reason the UK is in such sorry condition today. None of this has anything to do with this absurd law, which is what the the author should have focussed on, instead of unintentionally revealing his globalist bias. Is he going to write another article criticizing the equally stupid laws passed by the EU?

anonymouse said:

Seems kind of crazy that anyone has to pay for bad chips, who knew this was the industry norm.

Certainly less crazy than paying Microsoft for every PC you ship whether or not Windows was installed on it! Illegal monopolies suck.