Keep in mind that if you're a native, or even a more "outgoing" kind of expat, you probably won't see those insular expats at all.
I'm also an expat/immigrant. I met some people who have been living here for 10 years and haven't picked up the language yet. The only reason I know about them is because they heard me speaking another language in a quick phone call and wanted a friend.
Like parent said, nothing wrong with that (plus, I'm not American, so I can't speak about the problems mentioned by the GP post)
The author knows how to hook you right in the first paragraph:
>> If you’re looking to pick a fight, simply ask your friends, “Is Pluto a planet?” Or “Is a hotdog a sandwich?” Or “How many holes does a straw have?” The first two questions will have them arguing yay or nay, while the third yields claims of two, one and even zero.
Interesting. Defamation aside, FUD, and 'fraud' claims aside, I hope this gets enough attention that they will actually fix the very real issues voting machines have had for the past decade:
Calling this a Fox News Tax is a stretch, which requires the author to make several connections to publishers, the first of which was the Wall Street Journal. Why not call it the WSJ Tax? Indicates this is a scammy title looking for clicks.
Can Facebook violate any TOS and not get kicked off because of antitrust?
They could justify it to a court, because "Facebook incubated the insurrection" or "Facebook broke our rules" not because "we don't like enabling our competitors".
Apple disabled both Facebook and Google's iOS enterprise certificates because they were using them to collect data from external participants in violation of the ToS, although that wasn't the main app. And the access was restored once they took down the offending apps.
If the violations were serious enough, I think Apple/Google would consider some kind of temporary shutdown for the Facebook app if they thought they could weather the PR storm.
Apple has less to fear from antitrust than Google in general, and particularly from taking hostile actions towards Facebook.
On the other hand, Facebook is not really a competitor to Apple, while Google very much is, so Apple has an incentive not to carry out an action that would strengthen Google.
For the purposes of making a decision like this, justifiability in court seems like a relatively remote worry. The shitstorm itself, I'm guessing, would be the more immediate concern. Few people in a position to make a decision like this would have neutral feelings about the prospect of a swarm of federal investigators giving them the white collar equivalent of a body cavity examination in order to suss out whether their intentions were pure.
That's true. At least in the U.S. anti-trust laws require you to show that the company engaged in certain actions with the _intent_ of creating a monopoly.
Glenn is hiding behind the "were arrested" phrasing, so despite the fact that baked alaska has a parler account and was literally livestreaming from the capital he doesn't count in Glenn's opinion as he hasn't been arrested yet.
What Glenn is saying is technically true, but also complete garbage. It's meant to fool people who can't do the minimum levels of research.
Ah yes, good point. I mentioned that elsewhere in the thread… but I guess I forgot when I started doing my own research, because the notion that you could livestream your participation in a terrorist attack at the Capitol and not get arrested immediately is absolutely bananas.
Also, here are some screen grabs of Kevin Greeson, who likely would have been arrested, but had a heart attack from what I have heard termed "insurrectionary excitement"
Also what does it matter if Jan 6 was not planned on parler? Jan 17th and inauguration shenanigans were being planned there until the site got yanked.
Hard to tell now that it’s down. But I find it pretty hard to trust him on this. One, it’s been fairly well documented that people were organizing the attack on Parler [1]. And two, as I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there’s the obvious loophole that many who participated in the attack simply haven’t been arrested at all.
That's ridiculous to be honest