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by hunglee2 2y ago
yes i think it kind of looks that way I am afraid. US literally has an oligarch duly elected and assuming office in a few hours. We are in the era of robber barons, maybe similar to late 19th Century America, where J P Morgan was obviously
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it's over for this form democracy. How can it survive when foreign powers can influence elections with one update of an algorithm? A document written 200 years ago does not protect against the communication media we have today. I wish
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I think EU will not ban these platforms but mired them down with never ending stream of lawsuits, and eventually force a withdrawal - similar to how some US companies don't serve EU due to GDPR etc. A proper firewall should create the
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by hunglee2 2y ago
Bottom line is: it is reasonable for governments to exercise control over the information environment their citizens experience, especially when social media has such potential to sow chaos and instability. Look at how the US internet fuell
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by hunglee2 2y ago
No foreign party's should have any say in how US businesses operate. If they do wish to use the US internet, they should opt not to do so and build their own technology eco-system
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by hunglee2 2y ago
EU should insist X divest its European operations on national security grounds. X should be reconstituted as a separate EU based entity subject to EU governance
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by hunglee2 2y ago
China's vision of the Internet turned out to be more prescient than we realised at the time. Everyone is going to their own Great Firewall. In hindsight, it will seem crazy that we ever allowed media platforms to be controlled by forei
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by hunglee2 2y ago
The outrage from job seekers is justified but Gizmodo doesn't help matters by categorising fraud (fake jobs) with failure (never filled). Hiring is hard, as anyone who has ever done it will attest, and very many vacancies opened in goo
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by hunglee2 2y ago
This is a great example of a news story being propagated, citing other news stories as evidence of the claim. It has so far been carried by media outlets such as WSJ, Bloomberg and Reuters, with each propagation creating a sense of evidence
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EU will need to find a way to appease Trump - unclear whether this is the best way to do it. There probably needs to be a more public backdown
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Energy Technology Trade Perspectives 2024 [pdf](iea.blob.core.windows.net)
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there's every chance that this will be a fiasco, but UK is low on options and needs to take long shots like this.
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Trump did start it but Biden continued and extended it. The neoconservative Project for a New American Century - for a long time a marginal position - has become consensus. This is America's Trade War
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reminds me of the scene in Game of Thrones, when Cersei demonstrates what real power is by seizing Littlefinger and faux threatening his life. Power, is power, not just the perception of power
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Ruchir Sharma Talks to Prannoy Roy on the 10 Economic Trends for 2025 [video](youtube.com)
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The relationship recession is going global(ft.com)
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draconian authoritarian regime
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Petrostate USA vs. Electrostate China: Who Will Win the Climate Race? [video](youtube.com)
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inadvertent de-risking. Failure of US payments providers to localise to previously low-value Global South markets gave domestic operators a chance to emerge and grow. Having control over your own payments systems is obviously good for natio
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Wonderful movie adaptation. Remains so watchable, 3 decades afterward.
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article literally says 'double 2023 visitor rate' so a country lifts visa requirements to 50 or so countries, x2 visitor count in 12 months, and its reported as a failure.
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As are we all - once the demographic decline begins, there appears to be no stopping it. Perhaps only Ceaucescu Romania managed to reverse demographic decline? And he did it by banning contraception, never mind abortion, leading to the noto
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by hunglee2 2y ago
Censorship most assuredly continues to exist on social media. Even X, which Musk parades as unique in the freeness of its speech is quite happy to demonetise, de-amplify and de-platform prescribed opinions. That 'fact checking' ha
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WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 [pdf](reports.weforum.org)
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Headline writers were the original click baiters - understandable to get opens but really harms the substance of the article, which is that increase in lead poisoning may have had debilitating impact on the Roman Empire.
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this is all about momentum. Popularity has little to do with it, and besides which can only be measured via an election. Longer it goes on, better the chances for Yoon
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Kudos for OP for writing this, definitely a view point which is under represented. To be the 'perpetual other' is a strange experience, not always unpleasant, but always somewhat insecure.
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Yoon is going to pull an Erdogan and see this out. It's a battle of wills. He has the strongest
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very important to control the information environment - social stability and mobilisation of the masses is dependent on it.
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Apple really should've bought a Chinese EV firm rather than try and build their own car from scratch. We've seen two phone makers - Xiaomi and Huawei - both successfully roll out EV's 2024, as well as rolling out native OS ac

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