It’s not. It’s silicone valley’s insane strategy to hype tech to juice stock prices then build to meet the hype. Instead of doing the logical thing - build useful features and let them become popular to bring the hype. These companies are way more focused on wall street hype than their actual customers reactions to their products.

With their philosophy on privacy, I hope they do. The more people use Linux instead of Windows, the more developers will clean bugs up.

Compete with but will lease their service because there is no actual competition with a barrier to entry like national cell towers.

A powerful henchmen of the evil lord with secret designs on overthrowing him to become the new big bad guy power. That tracks.

He probably already bought it through private equity.

Anything Peter Thiel is involved in you know it is going to be fucking evil on some level.

This is because Tiktok slows spread of anti-CCP content and boosts pro-CCP content. Exactly like they keep swearing they don’t. ByteDance answers to their State Capitalism daddy Xi, they are not independent as they claim.

Regulations aren’t perfect, but the banking industry has gotten vastly more full of scams since congress repealed Glass Steagall. Regulations offer a structure to punish fraud and scamming. We need clear defined rules to at least attempt to control markets from their worst possible outcomes.

What any unregulated market becomes.

BECAUSE CRYPTO IS A SCAM

Exactly. They want their version of The Network State