Genuinely half of the time I see posts on here I think "oh, you don't say?"

It’s kind of funny monopolies accuse others of being monopolies. Not b/c they’re altruistic, but b/c ai chat bots are going to start cutting into Alphabets search engine and advertising monopoly.

We have a free market, Google should try competing in it and stfu. Same with Elon and his cronies.

I can’t read it coz paywall but this article is talking about cash app not crypto…?

Sounds good! Thanks. I’ll look for those with that rating!

More like, Finance? In the Fraud industry? What?

Known name Id theft victim here due to thrives knowing just enough to bypass security measures. The crimes were done at Walmart FinTech centers. I didn’t know about anything until debit cards in my name started showing up at my home address. The Fintechs have over 1000 accounts using various bits of my information. Definitely a laundering scheme being committed. One fintech is suing me for fees and negative account balances. The ID used to open the account was a Superbad movie Hawaii ID with no link to name or address. I never lived in Hawaii.

And yes, it’s all been reported to cops, credit bureaus, FBI, FTC, etc but nothing is done unless I sue the fintechs for info.

Regrettably, it’s pretty clear we’re already there

Who's fault is the resulting good or bad is a separate question than is the result good or bad, but I'll dip a toe.

I don't think code can yet have responsibility, but the company that creates it can, as well as the companies that help distribute it. If it were discovered that an app was causing people to explode, I'm sure you'd then find the logic required to shift some blame away from the people being splattered. As for how exactly responsibility should be divided in light of varying levels of potential harm, I don't have a well formed opinion.

Personally, as a "fucking adult", I choose not to use TikTok as I find short form video streams to be like mind cancer.

Edit: ...like mental heroin. Thought of a better analogy.

Edit2: I can't help but think of that as I read through comment sections discussing TikTok these days. Likely a good percentage of people commenting are junkies being threatened with their source getting cut off and it shows. "TikTok is bad? Well then its all bad, man, might as well delete the internet!" lol.

I see that screenshot and all I can see is Fallout

Well you can either deal with the bans and accept you’ll be banned if you violate TOS or you can leave. Either way it doesn’t impact me.

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Ok, my mom has a TCL TV and an LG TV. Whenever she streams on either of them, particularly Hulu and HBO Max, the mouths don't match the words. They're off by at least 5 words or so. How do we fix this? I have a Sony and don't have that problem too often and it usually fixes itself, but hers doesn't.

Teams is a fucking joke. Terrible software.

No, thanks. Tilt Five is way more inclusive and flexible.

Aka, I am a profile stalker and salty someone questions my fondness for cancel culture and censorship. Lol, seriously. It'll be ok, see you read my comment, you didn't like and here we are, no worse for the wear.

Microsoft is a trash company

In 2008 we learned that huge chunks of the American economy were fraudulent (mortgages). I don’t think that fintech has the potential to be nearly as damaging, but we on Earth also have less access to natural resources, fewer young skilled Westerners in the labor pool, and a lot more debt than we did in ‘08.

I know, that's why I said I didn't support those things. I wasn't referring to those things. It was just a general statement, which I thought I explained. Those things are illegal and should be illegal.

This is pretty rich coming from a company founded and ran by a man permanently banned by the SEC for money crimes.

We could easily go back to mid-2000s housing bubble levels where it’s impossible to tell how much of the economy is actually legit vs fraudulent.

>Money => Fraud

Fixed that for you

They already are bigger

In Germany there is a saying: Where there is a trough, there are pigs

I just hope we don’t encounter another 2008 situation where there is so much systemic fraud that it becomes impossible to tell how much of the global economy is legit.

> "Has Tik-Tok contributed to us being better?" is perhaps clearer wording.

Should it, though? Is that its responsibility?

Or is it ours?