FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies (wired.com) 70
The Federal Trade Commission has removed over 300 business guidance blogs published during former President Biden's term, including consumer protection information on AI and privacy lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft, WIRED reported Tuesday, citing current and former FTC employees.
Deleted posts included guidance about Amazon's alleged use of Ring camera data to train algorithms, Microsoft's $20 million settlement over Xbox children's data collection, and compliance standards for AI chatbots. New FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has pledged to pursue tech companies but with focus on alleged conservative censorship rather than data collection practices.
Deleted posts included guidance about Amazon's alleged use of Ring camera data to train algorithms, Microsoft's $20 million settlement over Xbox children's data collection, and compliance standards for AI chatbots. New FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has pledged to pursue tech companies but with focus on alleged conservative censorship rather than data collection practices.
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Nothing authoritarian about deleting history.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Nothing authoritarian about deleting history... (Score:5, Informative)
"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
They've deleted information about the Navajo Code Talkers [militarytimes.com].
Re:Nothing authoritarian about deleting history... (Score:5, Insightful)
Deleting all the stuff about black medal of honor recipients from the govt site was absolutely enraging. Like, those guys put *everything* on the line for us, knowing they'd come back from a world war to a country that wasn't going to give them all the rights they'd been fighting for over in europe, but they still did it. The least they deserve is to be remembered.
I'm told some of its back, but the thinking behind removing them in the first place was utterly infuriating. What is society becoming?
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"The least they deserve is to be remembered."
Racists don't agree and while history is written by the victors, it is always subject to being rewritten by losers when they come to power.
The least this country deserves is "not Trump", but that's not what we get.
Re:Nothing authoritarian about deleting history... (Score:4)
You 've got that the wrong way round. They voted for this. Or didn't vote for anything else. What they've got now is the least they deserve.
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Funny, the only popular vote ole Danny boi ever won was the one where 12 people said he's a fucking FELON.
Re:Nothing authoritarian about deleting history... (Score:5, Insightful)
Deleting all the stuff about black medal of honor recipients from the govt site was absolutely enraging. Like, those guys put *everything* on the line for us, knowing they'd come back from a world war to a country that wasn't going to give them all the rights they'd been fighting for over in europe, but they still did it. The least they deserve is to be remembered.
I'm told some of its back, but the thinking behind removing them in the first place was utterly infuriating. What is society becoming?
"Society" such as it exists in the United States, is finally manifesting its heart. The heart of our society has always been driven by hatred and greed, and now we've elected the literal manifestation of hatred and greed into federal positions of power in numbers that can overwhelm and outright silence anyone with anything other than hatred and greed in their intentions.
Enough of the population would rather hate than think that this is what we elected as a people. And while we should be ashamed, the assholes that voted for this shit are too busy strutting around like peacocks bragging about how great it feels to be on the winning team, even those who are getting their lives broken in half by their winning.
And it's going to get a lot worse before we see any signs of a turn-around. It'll have to get bad enough for even the "winners" of today to see that completely destroying all societal norms may seem like a lot of fun up-front, but it's ultimately going to lead to worse lives for all of us. I wish people understood that lifting up all of us, including the lowest of us, raises up all of us. Instead, they've believed that only by pushing others down can they rise up. I'm sorry, destroying the foundations of a building does not make it easier to climb to the higher floors. It only destabilizes the entire structure. And apparently some people need to learn that lesson the extremely hard way.
Re:Nothing authoritarian about deleting history... (Score:5, Funny)
They've deleted information about the Navajo Code Talkers [militarytimes.com].
It was obviously a DEI program choosing ethnicity over merit, and the deliberate policy of excluding Anglo-Saxon Code Talkers is just another example of woke gone mad and white American replacement in action.
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Yes, I left a hint because it’s difficult to parody people who are actually that stupid.
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I don't know whether to laugh or to cry but I do know we as a nation collectively fucked up.
Just waiting for the cock-up (Score:3)
Because they literally did a copy paste and delete for everything with the word gay in it.
If it is just copy-paste, how long before we get a cdesign propentist [rationalwiki.org] moment?
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Hell, they even deleted mention of the Enola Gay, presumably on the grounds that dropping atomic bombs on Japan at the end of WWII was irretrievably gay. I guess they have a thing for homosexuality that they aren't telling us about since the Maggots seem to get so excited about it.
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oh yay. (Score:2)
Out of the fire and into the wood chipper... that's progress.
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Musk will personally buy up millions of eggs around the world and bring them to the US, tariff free, and give them to american families. one dozen per family. That should alleviate hunger and help everyone feel happy and bring much praise upon the dear leader. Because this is a wonderful, caring regime. Defenders of American family values (never mind all the children he fathered and has nothing to do with).
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He'll bring them in using his child-saving cave submarine. Don't agree? Then you're a pedophile.
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Yep, egg prices just fell by 25%
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Trump is indeed magnanimous and powerful to personally lower prices. Is there anything he can't do? Funny how a combination of lowered demand and a lull in bird flu infections has lead to lowered wholesale prices! Retail prices haven't yet come down in most places. They will, though, for now. Bird flu is expected to increase again later on in the season.
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More effective? Only if your goal was to destroy our influence and tank the economy. They're doing a bang-up job of that.
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What flavor was the kool aid?
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What flavor was the kool aid?
Don't know why people keep asking this. The flavor is orange. Duh.
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As someone in the UK who is definitely not in prison for Facebook usage, you have become a laughing stock within just a few months.
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You forgot:
21. Annex Canada, Greenland and Panama.
And, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to say "Fuck you, and fuck that dementia ridden moron you support."
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Destroying the economy is exactly the stated goal. I donâ(TM)t understand why anyone is treating this as anything, but that.
Ruin the economy, people freak out, declare a national emergency that you created.
It is literally what Putin did for Russia! Cause a crisis then take dictatorial power permanently.
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Egg prices HAVE dropped! (Score:2)
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That's not really the fault of any political party. But if bird flu becomes human-to-human transmissible, the responsibility for that CAN be assigned to the republicans. They should be taking much stronger steps NOW (and last month, and to a lesser extent the month before that).
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Look at all the egg on the convicted felon's face! If that's any indication, eggs will soon be too cheap to meter.
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The USA is so fucked under the orange blob , it's going to take decades to recuperate and become great again.
Canada ajust choosed Australian over the horizon radars to keep an eye on the arctic. Way better tech than USA's in the first place.
We're all better off without the USA . They screwed themselves , now it's time for the rest of the world to free themselves of any American influence and do business with reliaable partners. Screw the US. We don't need them.
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Pride goeth before the fall. The world does need the US, but we need a humble US that recognizes we're all better off working together than in tribal fiefdoms. Despite being too big to fail, it won't take much for the US to completely fall apart, though. There's a significant portion of the US population that was already disenfranchised and dirt poor. There are even a huge number of trump supporters that are poor white people on welfare (statistically most welfare recipients are white, and at least half of them are conservative). Eventually all this destruction is going to come home to roost and people are going to get very angry and there's a very good possibility of civil conflict, possibly in several directions at once.
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Ah yes, the old tariffs-will-bring-the-jobs-back argument. Tariffs were one of the major causes of the Great Depression in the 1920s and 30s.
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No tariffs didn't cause the Great Depression, but they were a major factor in making it worse once it started.
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Thanks for the improvement. You're right, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act wasn't passed until 1930.
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That's a link to a Bill Maher clip on a barely functional site with a stupid name.
Do you have any idea what a policy is?
As for the idiotic claim that Tariffs will magically bring back manufacturing jobs, you do know that it takes a really long time and a shit-ton of money right? You can't just build a bunch of factories along with an entirely domestic supply chain over night. All those tariffs will do is weaken our global influence, piss-off our allies, wreck our GDP, and give our enemies giant boners.
The previous administration, in contrast, was able to bring quite a bit of manufacturing back home without destroying our alliances and tanking the economy. Oh, and had record GDP growth.
Oh, but the price of eggs! Let me guess: it was all Biden's fault until January 20th when you suddenly discovered it was all because of a bird flu. This is why no one takes you morons seriously.
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What doesn't function on the website? - Is this one better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nobody said anything about magic, watch this video, it will explain how tariffs work. Nobody said it will work over night either.
Also it depends on what the supply chain is for. For silicon, no, those efforts started under the democrats and will continue under the republicans but it will take many more years. For steel? - it's a lot quicker and more straightforward. Aluminium too.
- The GDP of the US is not so heavil
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Also, it was the democrats that were non stop talking about egg prices on the news cycle, that's why nobody takes you democrats seriously.
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The youtube link didn't post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Sure tariffs do benefit local industries, and might eventually contribute to jobs as businesses move manufacturing home. The free trade agreements in the past certainly did not cover all parts of the economy or markets. Many times existing markets (usually small but important ones) are protected that way.
But tariffs across the board is a massive inflation driver. Remember you pay the tariffs while you wait for local industry to build up and somehow offer cheaper alternatives, which is unlikely because of
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That's because you're stupid. Much like the idiotic links you have so much trouble posting.
As for the rest, you morons will believe anything but the truth.
Here's the reality of the situation. Try to let it wrinkle that smooth little walnut-sized brain of yours: The world no longer respects us. We're a joke. A pariah. They're boycotting us all around the globe. You don't seem to understand just how much we depend on being the world's reserve currency. Do you know why we hold that particular distinction? Because until a few months ago, we were seen as a stable democracy. Now, we're aligning ourselves with dictators, alienating our allies, and shredding our own constitution.
Putin doesn't respect the orange traitor. He's playing Donny like pinball machine with a broken tilt. He openly mocks your mad king on Russian state TV, even posting nude pictures of his gold-digger wife. The convicted felon takes it like the little bitch he is because he idolizes Putin like a ten-year-old does his favorite baseball player. He's a clown and the whole world knows it. Well, everyone but you and your fellow traitors. When Putin isn't making him dance like a marionette, Musk and pals are doing whatever they want. Hell, even little kids don't respect him! "You're not the president. You need to go away". I guarantee that kid didn't come up with that all on his own, yet Donny takes the abuse like he's paying for it.
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Wait, I'm a democrat? News to me!
Tariffs are a tax, plain and simple. You, Hackeron, will pay that tax. Tariffs do hurt other countries by reducing demand for their goods. But they raise your consumer cost by definition. Consider a 25% tariff on an imported good. If you insist on buying that product you'll of course be paying 25% more to cover the cost of the tariff. So you are incentivized to buy local, but the local good was already more expensive than the imported good. If it wasn't there'd have bee
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so no, it will not wreck your GDP.
It already has, dipshit. You're completely delusional.
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Notice he said "your" GDP. Putin our friend and ally
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We (USA) have decided that the best plan for our future is to threaten our allies and embrace our enemies.
I will leave it to your imagination as to WHY this is.
(Insert this_is_fine_meme here)
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that is stated to be exactly what the current administration wants. They want bread lines and total collapse of society. The goal after that is to declare a national emergency, suspend the constitution, and take total power permanently.
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None of that makes the slightest bit of sense. GDP is domestic, that's that the D means. 0% "comes from" anywhere outside the US and 100% "comes from the whole world" by definition. And losing 7% of GDP would be massive. And the rest of the world excluding the US would destroy the US economy because US currency would no longer run the world.
And what does any of that have to do with "going to go"? Are you suggesting that non-republicans need to shut up or leave? I guess Brits can be as ignorant as Trump
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Sure, trade has no impact on GDP, sorry, you're right - you must be one of those intelligent Kamala voters. Do you also keep things in a cloud above you? - or drink wine all day long out of a sippy cup?
And no, that's not that massive, it's significant but it would be truly catastrophic for the UK, EU, Australia, etc. In any case nobody is talking about actually cutting trade with the rest of the world. "Going to go" as in who are these countries going to create better alliances with instead of the US, it's
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Trade does impact GDP. Exports increase GDP, imports lower GDP.
Not if the imports are raw materials that are turned into finished goods within the country. And then are, oh say, exported.
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Are you actually this stupid or do you just not understand how GDP works?
Well, you're here defending the convicted felon even as it's clear that his policies are tanking the economy, the market, and our standing on the world stage... Yeah, you really are that stupid.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Interesting)
Trump is never leaving the White House except in a casket. It can't take decades to recuperate when recuperating never starts. People continue to pretend this is a temporary thing. No Republican intends Trump power to be anything but permanent. All they needed was your vote one last time.
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Unfortunately you are correct. There will most likely be midterm elections as usual, but there are only two possible outcomes from them:
Republicans continue to hold congress, even by a slim majority, thanks to ongoing voter suppression and gerrymandering efforts, and possibly removing democratic candidates by trump's DOJ on trumped up charges (for crimes such as standing in front of a tesla dealership holding a sign).
Or, if it appears Democrats may gain control of the house and senate, Trump will move to throw out the results of the election claiming widespread voter fraud through executive action.
I can see no other possible outcome.
Trump will definitely stand for a third and forth terms. Elections will continue to happen "normally" for a while, but only Trump-endorsed candidates will win. Certainly no Democratic presidential candidate will ever win going forward.
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Agree, Next time they have a town hall remind them that we picked a REPRESENTATIVE not a boss. Do as We say or we will vote you out or just have you removed.
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Some or all of what you predict may come to pass, but it doesn't account for how the Democrats will sabotage their own efforts. Right now, they're the world's most pathetic opposition party, ranking behind even Venezuela's who lost their election with 80% of the vote.
Right now I don't think we will recuperate (Score:2)
And so far besides a couple of journalists who compile the data to prove that it happened no one is
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People are rising up all over the country. If our representatives won't take action, the people have already shown us that they're willing to pickup the slack.
Our democracy only dies if we let it.
Oh, and a whole lot more people who were raised to distrust the gub'mint are about to find out just how much their government was doing for them. We're going to hear the world "betrayed" from quite a few people who believed the lies that won their vote.
Remember: A ruler has no real power without the consent of th
AI Rules (Score:3)
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
- Not Voltaire
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Kevin Alfred Strom?