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Perhaps we would look at the donations to see if this is likely or not?
Is buying a son’s painting considered a donation or not?
And if a foreign government overpaying for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hotel stays in properties owned by the politician is not considered a donation, I can't imagine anyone thinking the painting thing would be.
Finally, they've started attacking big tech on the privacy front. The whole "monopoly" and "anti-trust" thing was going nowhere. But privacy orders like this are a step in the right direction. And to put the nail in big tech's coffin, congress should pass a law forbidding the sharing of any personal information on any resident of the US for any commercial reason whatsoever. With draconian penalties assessed per user…
> And to put the nail in big tech's coffin, congress should pass a law forbidding the sharing of any personal information on any resident of the US for any commercial reason whatsoever. At this point, a huge number (majority?) of Facebook et al users know what Facebook are doing. They value their own data less than Facebook do and are happy to trade it in return for free social media service. You may not like it, but…
> hospital price transparency, Wasn't this already put in place by the previous administration?
Hospitals have zero incentive to be transparent, and all the incentives to be opaque. So long as you’re a non-Medicare/Medicaid patient you’ll continue to suffer.
The American healthcare system is completely fucked (there’s no better word).
How about Big Telecom and Big Fintech and Banking? Or is it simply because the rest did not pay enough to the lobbyists?
The ISPs have been getting hit in this series of orders. That said, yes, fintech and banking are conspicuously absent. Which kind of lets you know that they are just too powerful.
I have no idea why these groups have survived scrutiny for their literal multi-hundred million dollar lobbying/bribery of politicians.
My closest guess is that we all know "My" physician or a well paid nurse that benefits from the bribery.
How about Big Telecom and Big Fintech and Banking? Or is it simply because the rest did not pay enough to the lobbyists?
Some is better than none.
Edit: you downvote me because you know this is exactly how it goes around here
"Hearing aids cost thousands of dollars apiece, for no other reason than there is a cartel established by government that prevents firms from selling hearing aids without a prescription." An example of how many (most?) monopolies are able to exist because of some sort of legal authorization or protection. Regulatory capture. There are dozens of companies who would no doubt start making inexpensive hearing aids tomorr…
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And how do you feel about sharing the collected data of your conversations and travel with government agencies?
I feel there is nothing the government is going to do about that. This doesn't mean that I throw up my hands and say, OK, I'll let everyone have all of my communications logs since the government has them.
How about Big Telecom and Big Fintech and Banking? Or is it simply because the rest did not pay enough to the lobbyists?
The ISPs have been getting hit in this series of orders. That said, yes, fintech and banking are conspicuously absent. Which kind of lets you know that they are just too powerful.
How about Big Telecom and Big Fintech and Banking? Or is it simply because the rest did not pay enough to the lobbyists?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...