Wait what!? Really?

Republican Senate Leader John Thune of South Dakota: “There is no place in our country for political violence. Period, full stop.”

https://www.westrivereagle.com/articles/commission-to-investigate-january-6-insurrection-fails-to-pass-senate-senator-thune-votes-nay-johnson-votes-yea-in-house/

how dumb can you be? You think people that are protesting over social media bans are actually cognizant of the actual effects of social media? or what the law actually entailed? Look at the protests in the US over TikTok. People just want social media, they don’t care the effects.

The truth of the matter is (before all the killings) is that all the ‘social media companies’ had to do was fill out a fucking form and they didn’t do it. Then people pissed about missing their feeds went out and blamed it on the government, when it was completely the social media companies’ faults. Sure, it sounds like the government was doing a lot of other shit, but acting like the government didn’t give the companies time to register is just an absolute lie, there were several companies that managed just fine and they didn’t get blocked. If the goal was blocking social media completely then they wouldn’t have bothered with the registration, they just would have blocked.

People need to stop giving social media companies the benefit of the doubt. Now the situation is so out of control that people get to blame the government blocking social media as a reason to not do any sort of regulation against these tech companies in other countries. Now when a law in X country pops up saying “we need to regulate FB, TikTok, etc” you’re going to get people referencing Nepal as a reason not to, even if FB/etc are literally causing genocides.

To be clear: this is NOT a commentary on whatever other bs the government is doing or the protesters are protesting. This is ONLY a comment on the OP i replied to stating

which is why social media platforms were cut off, so videos about the corruption and investigations and means to plan protests were cut off. The ‘they didn’t register in time’ excuse is for the government to save face internationally.

which is just a bald faced lie since they didn’t cut off any social media that literally filled out a form.

no, it means “filled out a form with contact info”.

Several social media companies registered in time just fine and weren’t cut off so no, I think that’s just an excuse for the protestors.

The nuance you’re missing is that the social media companies would have been allowed the second they registered with the government. All it would do is allow the Nepalese government to actually contact a representative in order to help protect Nepal from foreign tech companies doing things to control Nepal from afar.

All the protests have done is given these social media companies that flaunted the law massive power. It didn’t stop corruption in Nepal.

Nepal isn’t banning them for those reasons though. Nepal is very much a country that is trying to not lose its people to the tech corps so they passed a law requiring the tech corps to register to operate in the country, something that is required in numerous other countries.

So dumb. Citizens literally forcing the government to allow the tech corps to continue to fuck over their society.

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Oh interesting. I’m not sure about the sliding down, I’ve not had that happen. The one I linked holds it shape very well, the recommendations actually say you should fluff it every night but I have only fluffed it like 4 or five times since getting it years ago.

You’re welcome for the recommendation!

The proposal faced pushback from logging concession holders and regional business groups in Loreto, Peru’s largest region, located in the country’s far northeast where the reserve would be located. Some lawmakers also objected, arguing that creating the reserve would block economic development and restrict access to valuable natural resources. Supporters of these industries questioned whether there was sufficient evidence of uncontacted peoples in the area, saying the territory had been tied up for nearly two decades without final approval.

Literally only rejected because of “economic” reasons. Politicians showing their faces.

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I’m not actually asking for the answer. I want a journalist to actually get a government official to admit whatever personal reason they have so that we finally stop supporting this genocidal nation. Nobody is going to try to vote to remove these people from power until they actually admit their reason.

Why does no journalist ever ask why government officials want Israel to be our ally. Just because they were for x number of years has no bearing on whether or not they should have been or should still be our ally. Russia was our ally, guess what, they’re not anymore. We don’t have to ally ourselves with murderous countries.

The whole interview centers on Israel must be our ally so we must do stuff for them. They shouldn’t fucking be our ally!!! They’ve been committing atrocities for generations at this point!

How about doing something about the profiteering in your own cabinet first.

Yeah totally. Sucks for sure

Yeah agreed. I just don’t see how you exclude them without unintended consequences.

So paid would include the owners (if it’s an llc or similar), it would include anyone sent by the owners even if it’s not their job title, etc.

I’m pretty sure you can request all that information as well, with a FOIA request.

Seborga is a real place though. And they totally think they’re their own independent nation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seborga

So what defines corporate? What defines paid? You’re excluding mom and pop shops and even medium sized businesses from your definition. How are lawmakers supposed to know if their law is gonna harm specific industries if businesses can’t tell them?