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Because the businesses won't let us work from home anymore.

Oh, that's an interesting observation. I think it might also be linked to the content consumed on commutes, and in public spaces while on the phone.

Pepfar funding, which had been providing about a fifth of South Africa's total spending on HIV programmes, got a reprieve last October with what was called a "bridge plan".

But a US State Department official has confirmed that a "phased drawdown" of Pepfar funding would now start.

This was because of "South Africa's failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration", the official said.

So bizarre.

Making that decision based on disinformation is par for the course for this administration.

That, yes. They had to arrest Durov before he started doing anything about Telegram.

I have no notes on the rest of your points, it will likely be a gigantic shitshow.

I'm thinking they might be using the definition from Digital Services Tax policies, which state that:

The social media definition focuses on two key aspects of user participation. An online service will meet the definition when both of the following conditions are met:

• The main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the service is to promote interaction between users (including interaction between users and user-generated content).
• Making content generated by users available to other users is a significant feature of the service.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/digital-services-tax/dst14200

If that's the case, then Rumble et al would be banned too. It might just be, that the press release just mentions the most popular ones.

That they don't intend to target messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Signal (and potentially Telegram) is a bit of a greyzone. Telegram is more social network than messaging app these days, where channels are a huge part of the platform. In fact, it's such an important part, that WhatsApp copied the Channel feature to their platform.

I see no mention of Rumble or Telegram. Are they left out on purpose, or because they have no idea what they are doing?

A company with a name like that would never meddle with democratic votes in other countries, that's a preposterous suspicion.

And how should this switch be operated, and by who?

It's hard to imagine a kill switch for a communications device meant to be used for rendering a stolen device inaccessible or useless being misused by anyone with power anywhere in the world. At all.

Ever.

It's a weird moment in time.

Now would be the right time for all protesters to start carrying. Like the Mulford Act, nothing gets 2a supporters more concerned, than when people they don't like, start doing the things they believe they themselves have every right to do.

Uh-oh, does that mean Kyle Rittenhouse needs to go to jail now?

Epic Games lever op til deres navn.

Now that is a useful site. Thanks for that.