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Not sure what jurisdiction you are referring to (and I didn’t see the unblurred plate so idk where this is), but I have looked up the owners of several vehicles just from their plate number in the United States.

For real, the only hard drives I’ve ever had fail on me were Seagates.

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Correct, but that doesn’t mean TikTok would be inaccessible if they didn’t have servers in the US. My point is that the federal government doesn’t have the ability to completely limit access to a foreign website. It would be very slow and they’d lose users, sure, but they could keep running as usual from outside the US and still remain accessible to people inside the US.

They cannot take down a domain registered with a registry and registrar outside their jurisdiction. They could try and compel domestic DNS providers to block queries for that domain, but there are numerous providers who are unlikely to comply with that request on grounds of the 1st amendment.

Given that the OP is about TikTok (a foreign website) being blocked in the United States, your point has limited relevance here. Further, if the website was hosted stateside they could just physically seize the servers themselves.

I said “currently”. Sure, the US could pass legislation that would require ISPs to implement that ability. I said they do not currently have that ability, and you seem to be disagreeing because it is hypothetically possible for the US to build its own great firewall. I do not want to assume your intentions but it appears you may have misinterpreted my message.

What I said is still correct. The point of my comment was that the US should not pass legislation to build a great firewall.

And that’s all it should be. Currently, the US government does not have the facilities to block traffic to specific websites or IP addresses on a country-wide basis. We don’t have a “great firewall” the way China does, and we should keep it that way.

You don’t hear the road names when your GPS tells you where to turn? I’m shocked by how many people are unfamiliar with major roads in their city. I’ve met people who couldn’t even tell me what crossroads they lived at. To me, part of learning to drive meant making a note of the road names near me so I was familiar with locations based on road names.

I’m not old either, I’m in my early 20s.

I think the idea of the government banning entire websites (or really any information in general) is horrifying. The fact that so many people in America seem to be enthusiastic or at least indifferent to new forms of government censorship shows how far along we are to complete fascism. Information is meant to be free, regardless of whether you agree with it or not. The fact that’s we’re having these conversations is disgusting.

We already have floating nuclear power plants and we’ve never had an issue with one (in the US at least). Look at any modern aircraft carrier or naval submarine. Many of them are able to be connected to shore and power nearby buildings in emergencies.

American here. Lots of us don’t want to be over there either. Seeing our tax dollars literally set on fire on the other side of the world pisses us off.

Please tell me they’re responding to requests with an HTTP 451 as they should be.

Not putting your fucking shopping cart away. There’s no better way for me to explain it than the shopping cart theory:

Given that it took Asus months to even acknowledge the SD card issues on the original Ally, they don’t hold very much goodwill imo

I think it was Paranormal Home Inspectors

I remember a TV show where a home inspector would show up to “haunted” houses and explain how all their supposed ghost stories were actually due to loose doors, bad plumbing, etc.

Because of woke, right?

Honestly, I don’t hate this right off the bat. If anything, it’s better for this technology to become more broadly accessible to people for real uses (asking questions, learning things) than spewing out garbage that gets posted to the internet.

Making it accessible to people without requiring payment or creating an account isn’t a bad thing, either. I do wonder if the free 15 minutes is per call or cumulative per caller.