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Assuming you live in a city, don't buy yet. We're in another historic bubble.

The pop is on its way. Many homeowners have taken advantage of Covid related forbearance on their mortgages. Expect a lot of foreclosures once they expire (begining now).

Or sardines.

2.5% is not accurate. 4.4 million confirmed UK cases. It's widely known that a large number of cases were never reported/confirmed.

I don't want to keep arguing. Mostly informative exchange.

I would say though, Twitters model from around 2012 was extremely open compared with today (remember the Arab Spring?) and in no way was it an unusable, trash/spam laden platform.

YouTube would be literally interfering with a democratic election. If threat is too strong a word, fine. But you can't deny that they are actively participating in public elections. We want that? We want to privatize democracy? I don't.

Can we at least agree on some basic facts? Google does in fact curate search. Where a page is listed does not depend on how many times the link was clicked. Yes?

I do. A candidate for political office being barred from posting campaign clips to YouTube is a threat to our democracy.

Most average people view YouTube as the defacto video portal of the entire internet.

They are American companies, they therefore fall under American laws.

Just with Twitter, we know that content is regulated by region. Setting your location to Germany will prohibit seeing certain content from the U.S. Many more such regional cases.

The spam example would be a problem, but it's more of an annoyance to solve than a basic human rights case. You simply cannot have a democracy where segments of the population are barred from interacting with public officials online. Especially when public business (advertising, fundraising, making political arguments) is now a core of online communications.

Right. I personally never thought it was that complicated.

Once a company is classified as a public utility (I believe Google is) it should be forced to host all legal content. You tell me what's illegal and I can safely tell you it can't be hosted by Google.

Nailed it. Government knows it would be difficult to implement vaccine passports (stateside anyways) so they have publicly and privately asked private business to check vaccination status, bar entry etc for them.

Same goes for the Democrat Party asking Facebook to flag opposition comments regarding Covid. Government is shacked by the 1st amendment, corporations aren't.

The argument would be the magnitude of their impact on how a member of society can search for, view or transmit information is too large for Google to be deemed a private company.

If a private company impacts a nation's states democracy to such an extent that it rivals it in power, they ought to be classified as something else.

I also wonder how much control Google has over data stored on a Chromebook?

Do they apply ownership to the data on your physical storage device?

I've seen multiple comments assigning Googles illiberal behavior to Chinese influence or pressure.

This is patently false, Big Tech is beholden to Western dictate. There is currently a coordinated effort by non-partisan forces to push the United States into a war with China. Don't fall for it.

First artificial heart inventor - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov

(Albeit non-human)

I dunno you tell me, if it was an insurrection why wasn't anyone charged with insurrection?

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

You call opinions you disagree with lies.

So liberals get to pick the political arguments humans get to talk about? You may support that type of social conversation, but don't call it democracy, because it's not.

Was an excellent read.

Thank you for providing numbers.

Can we provide the data necessary for young men to take one of the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19?

The question. What percentage of men under 40 have had a cardiovascular event, specifically myocarditis, after taking the Phizer or Moderns shot?

Primary reason I haven't been vaccinated yet.

The established Western order wants war with China because they are not aligned with us.

NBC news, like virtually 100% of American media, supports this agenda.

From CNN to Fox News, war with China is establishment consensus.

3 comments from the creme de la creme of the tech community, regarding a U.S admins plans for manipulating 350 million private text messages.

Shameful cowardice. Trump was the fascist right?

A few weeks ago the Reuters Institute published a study that claimed 29% of Americans "trust media".

My question based off of that, are 29% of Americans funding paywalled media?

Thank you for putting me out of work!

Cigarette smoking is so harmful, in addition to the reasons cited by other comments, because you are inhaling burnt matter. Vaping doesn't involve this.

Big difference between inhaling a heated liquid vs combusted solid. And yes the nicotine is mostly harmless. I rather enjoy my nic addiction with good black coffee.

I would accept as proof whatever evidence/studies climatologists suggest prove that this heat wave is a result of climate change.

Earth science should not be treated as religion.

I would first want to see the study confirming this current heat dome is a result of climate change.

It sounds like a reverse polar vortex? If any meteorologists are around to confirm.

A large number of Americans don't want to live in a police state.

I never understood this logic.

The material on both sides of the mask are the same, no? A mask can prevent a virus from leaving your nose/mouth but not enter?