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The Trump administration already had apps removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play. (ICETracker, Tiktok was until it was sold to hard MAGA supporters)

Also, there have been many studies showing how YouTube videos will push right-wing agenda videos to people.

These are the 2 major aspects for chidren, locked down app stores and YouTube, both which have shown a favortism for right-wing politics lately.

This doesn't include Tiktok's new MAGA owners, Discord's usage of age verifaction company Persona (which feds the info to the Trump administration) X(itter). Social media that force-feeds children right-wing propaganda.

Just search for "Firefox Chan". And maybe keep on SafeSearch too...

He's signed a lot of EOs that weren't legal, but they take time to go through the courts and be disqualified. He just needs this one to last until arpund November's elections, so he doesnt care if its illegal or not, its just a delay tactic to help the Republicans during this election cycle.

So let me see if I understand this whole situation:

Trump and Israel attack a Iran because.... reasons....
Iran fires back and closes the Strait
Trump realizes that he is too weak and goes crying to Nato in hopes of hiding behind them
Nato refuses to help the cowardly Trump
Trump in a sulk cried about how Nato wouldn't clean up his mess
Now Trump in a spoilt temper tantrum is declaring he won't keep other promises unless Nato fights his battles for him because he's too much of a wimp to do it himself.

Do I have this right?

So.... never read Apples privacy policy huh?

Apple was the canary in the coal mine for this behavior in the EU. Apple was forced to allow third party apps, so Apple mandated that everyone had to register with them, and pay them their yearly fee, and then developers had to pay Apple another fee (core technology fee, still double dipping), and governments were completely fine with that. (And developers will happily jump through more hoops to develop on iOS).

Google saw this and decided if they can, so can Google. And this technically is the easier of the two as at least this doesn't require every developer to register with Google this way.

TIL: Graphics Image Manipulation Program is an ableist slur

It's because legally, having a criminal record doesn't disqualify you from running. There isnt anything preventing this. Most likely its to help prevent a minor mishap from long ago condemning your future abilities (otherwise, you'd have all sorts of small charges against every politician to destroy their career. It would make the worst blackmail material).

Now, morally why did enough people vote for him anyway is a whole different issue that I don't have an answer for.

No, you tried making the false equivalence of claiming that if it cant be fixed for cheap, then it somehow isnt fixable at all.

So it's i can't get a car fixed for less than $100, I guess that means cars aren't fixable?

But everything states that it was snowballs that were thrown, not chunks of ice. Even the Sargent has said it was snowballs.

Upgrading isn't repairing, and I said you can repair these devices. My question is what CAN'T you repair, not what can be repaired (which is what I did answer).

And any good lawyer will point out that when you are entering area that is clearly understood of the actions happening within (in this case, the snowball fight was publicly announced, this wasn'ta sudden "cops here, lets just start it now"), you are accepting of the assumed risks. In the case of a snowball fight, it is safe to assume that ice can sometimes get inside of a snowball, so they assumed the risk of this happening when they entered the publicly announced snowball fight.

Now, if there were rocks or other non-snow related objects, then you could make the argument you are trying here, but its not what happened.

What part can't be repaired? Some parts may be soldered to the board, but the board can be fixed without Googles blessing.

And upgrades were never a part of the original comment, so what does that have to do with my comment?

You hope that foreign governments will somehow release us government non-public files?

Im curious, how do you think that will work? They don't have access to them anymore than you do.

We are talking about Android, not Apple.

Android phones can be user repaired and repaired by third parties without Googles permission.

Buy a used one then. Google won't see your money then.

Or wait a little longer. https://piunikaweb.com/2025/11/19/grapheneos-to-release-non-pixel-flagship-phone-in-q4-2026-or-in-2027/

In a revealing discussion with David Bombal, the GrapheneOS team confirmed they are actively working with a “top-tier Android OEM” to bring their hardened operating system to non-Google flagship devices.

You supposed to be drinking vodka with it. Helps with the flavor.

Because the article is badly written.

It's confusing money spend on X must equal time spent on X.

The total amount of money spend on video games has gone done but more money is now being spent on things like crypto currency. This is being claimed that it means that people are spending more time on crypto since they are spending more money there. It ignores other issues such as who is spending on what (its countries as a whole, not amlunt on average per user), gaming is more expensive, more games are being made as a live service and are flopping (Highguard anyone?), retro gaming is getting bigger (doesn't cost a fortune), etc...

The other down side, 7 years of OS support before its EOL. Windows 10 gave at least 10, and then there is Linux.

Apple has the worst product life support/quickest forced obsolescence in the industry.