Sounds like job security to me.

Cortana and Microsoft Bing are going right out the window, Microsoft Edge will have to stay as a necessary evil to deal with moronically designed websites. Hear, hear!

In the US there was a period of time where it was illegal to export encryption above a certain level, so in a way it has already happened. Dumb has never stopped governments before.

I mean, it is. They keep a list of all your conversations and they are extremely vague about giving a direct reply. Hopefully this does something because, like US congress has itself admitted, they cannot afford to let the same thing happen with advanced AIs that they’ve let happen with social networks. Transparency needs to be a thing, and not fake “oh yeah I’m all about transparency” then goes out of their way to hide shit under the carpet or gaslight with bullshit when they can’t.

Talk about blinding yourself with greed.

I thought I spent most of my comment explaining why. I think your last sentence illustrates it best - do you think western governments like the US and anyone not Von der Leyen would be ok with it?

It’s better than just hoping Israel works it out, but it’s still unworkable. Israel won’t accept it. Hamas won’t accept it. The US won’t accept it. Iran won’t accept it. Russia won’t accept it. Whoever would be left doing it would get attacked from all sides, from within, and all while getting accused of imperialism from outside. I don’t think a UN peacekeeping mission in territory where conflict is being fueled by the billions from all sides is workable, and if anything, it will attract the attention world powers who say they can only so they can station their bases closer to where their black markets are. It’s still just my opinion, but reality will have to convince me on this one.

I see your /s

It makes sense but it is also not just impossible but begging for a world power to step in and impose themselves. How would an union already incapable of helping Ukraine and dealing with internal turmoil in each of their countries suddenly project itself between two groups that want to kill each other and think they will be successful there. Hell, have you even thought about how Turkey and Hungary would react and try to exploit their own influence over such a protectorate?

Well now I just think you are gaslighting.

Nope, sorry. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because someone was abused as a child doesn’t give him a free pass to abuse their own children. Also:

The jews are the occupying force

That’s a pretty racist/antisemitic way to put it, specially when there have been protests by Jews against both Netanyahu and his “war”. Neozionist, ultra-orthodox, colonists; take your pick, any or all are better ways to refer to those responsible.

Perhaps, but that doesn’t excuse what Hamas has stated for itself to stand for.

So not bullshit, just something you want to excuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter

But only because they are the ones in power. If the positions of power were reversed, it’d be pretty much the same thing, except Hamas would be the one performing the apartheid and the genocide.

That has had an Acceptable Ads Committee for over a decade now. I’m surprised that YouTube Ads wouldn’t have been permitted on it.

Not really making fun of it, just genuinely curious. Are people still installing Adblock Plus? It has had an Acceptable Ads Committee for over a decade now. What were people using if not that?

I had uBlock Origin installed since forever, are people just finding out about it?

Hopefully large social networks have not metastasized enough to prevent their death with this. I hope that they also decide to bully through this bullshit onto WhatsApp, which is heavily used throughout the EU, thus ensuring their death is even quicker. They’ve tried to copy Google Premium, but Google gives you the option to disable personalized data collections and ad serving.