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Seriously. The only problem the FBI’s owners have with TikTok is that they can’t police the content


If only they’d blocked Disney’s acquisitions


Disney doesn’t have as great of pricing power in its much larger relevant market.

Plus, United States v. Paramount in 1948 prevents a lot of the vertical integration that could be achieved in their former markets.

The only other place they can go is the even more crowded market that is online.


As part of a 2019 review of its ongoing decrees, the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....


Yawn. We all know this stems from the open discrimination against straight white men in the hiring process


Project bluebeam


Are you doing that “rules for radicals” think where you accuse the other side of doing the exact thing you’re guilty of?


Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We ban accounts that post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


I think we’re all worried about that, especially since Bill Gates started investing billions of dollars in vaccine production facilities.


The target audience for this doc seems to be people whose world view was shaped by the last two years of political messaging. Maybe the authors assume that most people working in tech fall into that category?


There have been some great posts and comments today regarding online content manipulation and censorship


Wow, I remember TSSF from IRC back in the 90s.


I remember there was a cartoon robot named “Fucko”


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