FiniteBanjo

"Mr. Legislator I am 84 and I need my Heroin but the federal government keeps cracking down on my supplier, please stop taking away all my Heroin Mr. Legislator. Also, force my bank to let me transfer 85,000 USD to India, it's really important that I do that before the 27th."

Those things are exactly the same and it is indeed what I just said. Problem?

Ignore them? Gosh no. Protect them. Literally what I said.

I don't see why users would even have a problem with this. Same services, more competitive market, and with less ties to an evil dictatorship should be celebrated, right?

It was a 50-0 to pass the commission and then go to the House floor for a vote and then the Senate for a vote and finally signed into law by the president unless he vetoes it, which is possible imo.

Honestly, teenagers and old people are the sorts of folks that need to be protected from themselves, I might just call in to my local representative to voice my support of forced sale, operating restrictions, or even outright ban.

EDIT: I sent him an email.

Technically, they're forcing the US Based shell company, which the Chinese were using, to sell out to some other American, or maybe just shut down.

Facebook / Meta was forced to pay 5 Billion USD in an FTC fine over how they used data.

Facebook was forced to pay 5 Billion USD in an FTC fine.

Technically, while that might have been true at the end of 2023, the US House of Representatives of the 118th congress have voted 796 times with 126 items passed, according to Govtrack.us with at least ten vetoes by the POTUS.

So not really the worst by any measure.

Honestly it might be "Can they" given how partisan issues like industry regulation are.

Ah now I get it, they mistakenly replied with it to "nature is healing" as a completely nonsequitur response instead of as a top level comment. Happens to the best of us.