Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
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Will Elon give Donald a few hundred million to be in charge of DOGE again so he can fire everyone in the FTC?
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I'm pretty sure Elon could commit literally any crime known to humanity and not have any consequences. This is trivial. He has no reason to comply with it and God only knows it won't be enforced by this disgusting fucking administration anyway.
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Well, it's not like the current government can be trusted in that regard, either.
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Any company using this kind of bullshit reasoning should be put under a microscope and remain there indefinitely, or until there's a change in ownership.
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So I guess this is Elon's life now. He's beyond independently wealthy so he spends his time trying to scam more money out of investors with his sketchy IPO and skirt regulations with this BS.
Everyone needs a hobby, right?
Everyone needs a hobby, right?
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How much did big Tabacco give them to force flavored vapes through?
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So by this logic anytime something materially, or even on paper, changes it no longer "exists" so can't be held to prior established rules.
In that case my wife should have changed her name because then all the documents she signed as her maiden name are false because she doesn't exist anymore! Would be saving so much in student loans!
No?
Play by the rules then.
In that case my wife should have changed her name because then all the documents she signed as her maiden name are false because she doesn't exist anymore! Would be saving so much in student loans!
No?
Play by the rules then.
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It seems the FTC rules around Internet privacy are quaint and merely token gestures, in light of the existence of palantir.
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If the GDPR requirements and EU regulators need the same information, then preparing it for the FTC is not "duplicate" effort for X because they should already have the work done when the FTC asks for it.
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It's certainly a new approach to having a bad apple in the barrel - just declare that you've added some more good ones so the food standards inspector should just go away.
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With X Corp having been ingested by SpaceX, remember, kids: Musk claims he and he alone has authority over SpaceX, meaning he personally is liable for any and all failures of the company to meet legal obligations.
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“only one commenter supported X’s petition, but they seemed more interested in criticizing the FTC,
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anonymously alleging to have been targeted by similar agency overreach“
Elon, that you?
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anonymously alleging to have been targeted by similar agency overreach“
Elon, that you?
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Until the whorehouse Americans call the U.S. Congress is persuaded that digital privacy must be legislated and enforced as a basic human right, large corporations will do whatever they like with our data, and by extension, with us.
It couldn't be simpler. It couldn't be more difficult. At a social level, restoring a corrupt government is one of the greatest challenges people ever face, but it's one of those dirty jobs that only becomes dirtier the more Americans procrastinate.
It couldn't be simpler. It couldn't be more difficult. At a social level, restoring a corrupt government is one of the greatest challenges people ever face, but it's one of those dirty jobs that only becomes dirtier the more Americans procrastinate.
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If you don't seize the machinery and denaturalize Elon Musk before it's all fixed from MAGA's fingerprints, nothing you do to his corporations is going to matter.
It's just that black and white. There are institutional issues that need addressing, but DOGE already proved he is an institutional obstacle to reform even outside of the political system.
It's just that black and white. There are institutional issues that need addressing, but DOGE already proved he is an institutional obstacle to reform even outside of the political system.
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I would love to one day find out his immune system developed a glitch and he became allergic to his own reproductive fluids. Wildly allergic, requiring constant monitoring or removal.
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Indeed. This petition contains a bunch of mutually contradictory arguments. If GDPR compliance is "duplicative", then the amount of engineering resources required to fulfill the FTC's oversight are near-zero - so therefore the argument that FTC oversight contradict's Trump's pro-AI order is void.
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there’s no other way to remedy alleged harms than to terminate it.
I agree, it is time to terminate X and divest EM from any company he is involved with!
I agree, it is time to terminate X and divest EM from any company he is involved with!
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chateauarusi
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That's true, but the perverse thing about this "duplicate effort" argument is that Musk's X isn't complying with EU filing and disclosure requirements either.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europ...content-regulations-misinformation-rcna247498
But then, I suppose, mathematically, zero equals zero, so it is, technically, a duplication.
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No matter how good the current data protection processes and procedures might be, I'd still want this safeguard simply because he's trying to use the "The data was held by my company that I merged into another of my companies and as it doesn't exist anymore I can't be responsible" argument.
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Well, no, now they'd have to do it for all the US users, and we all know they're a bunch of sheep that need tending by ICE...
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“X has since built a world-class privacy and data-protection program” that protects consumers
Pathologically lying psychopath continues to pathologically lie. This is the gaslighting decade.
Pathologically lying psychopath continues to pathologically lie. This is the gaslighting decade.
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Most laws governing mergers and acquisitions cover this because the “we are a different company and therefore not liable” is too easy a thing to pull off.
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A lot of the issues are structural - and absent a complete overhaul of the elections process/eliminating gerrymandering “safe districts” - we won’t likely see a fix anytime soon.
Honestly, true population representation in the House should be provided by a state-wide election of individuals - where the top “n” vote-getters in a rank-choice system are the States representatives. Not a “district by district” thing.
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I didn't even read the article, I jumped straight to the comments as I knew it would be more fiery 
and I was not disappointed
and I was not disappointed
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macosandlinux
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People, just get off X, then advertisers can, too. You will be fine, find your news/crowd somewhere else.
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