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This. This. This.

100% this.

TL;DR;
Their wealthy, powerful handlers are working directly from the Ur-Fascist playbook to manipulate the isolate, keep them isolated, and keep them dependent on that small caste of unscrupulous wealthy, powerful handlers. "The world is burning" they say, while setting the fires "only we can save you".

Longer TL;DR;
Since wealth and power are the two sides of the same coin there is a relatively small caste of people (we're talking a fraction of 1% of the population) who are ultimately responsible for this. They know how to isolate people, and how to take advantage of that isolation, and all the right lies to tell and strings to pull to build up enough anger and fear to turn them irrationally against themselves... but against everyone else, too. Who benefits? Yep, that teeny tiny caste of rich, powerful handlers.

As a Firefox user I prefer Kagi. Google is the antithesis of everything Firefox is supposed to stand for. That said, Yahoo has always been horrible and, out of the options that ARE available, Yahoo was easily the absolute worst.

Cancel. They don't deserve your business. They keep making worse and worse decisions that are more and more anti-consumer. Don't give them your money. Don't reward this behavior.

yes

Only insofar as Heineken is associated with Netherlands.

This is North Carolina; How "stunned" were they, really?

How about: No arms deals with any entity that indiscriminately murders innocent people, women, and children?

This kind of thing is the reason I've started moving completely away from Microsoft platforms, including Windows. Microsoft is getting more and more invasive and aggressive pushing advertising onto people in their own private spaces, and that is unacceptable.

Since I'm a PC gamer first and foremost, I don't use XBox... and after this, I won't. Ever. This was just MS dipping their toes in to see if they could get away with it.

Thankfully, with Valve continuing to rapidly improve Proton, just about any Windows game runs on Linux now with very little elbow grease. No Microsoft necessary.

Actual CSAM, depicting an actual crime against an actual child... or "someone drew dirty cartoons and I'm a moron who thinks dirty drawings are the same as one of the most heinous crimes imaginable - harming a vulnerable child"?

It's just shorthand for "unauthorized access to a digital system". There could be no password at all and it would still count as "hacking". The difficulty of gaining access isn't really relevant, legally speaking.

That’s an easy one.

It means “disassemble all checks and balances, strip the people of all power and authority, and concentrate the power and authority into the hands of a chosen party-aligned dictator or oligarchy.”

Small government doesn’t get any smaller than a totalitarian dictatorship.