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So far I've mostly avoided the whole "things that don't need to be on the Internet" situation.

Non smart TV (well that period when they started adding smart features but they're all out of date now so not even connected to the Internet)

All kitchen stuff is just kitchen stuff. No Internet.

Car is still offline.

Only real exception is smart thermostat, and that's just because when the boiler was installed that's what they put in.

Now, and yet also at any point in history, and also likely the future.

It's as true today, as it was then?

The annoying thing is, the partner they use accept credit card as a method of verification. I suppose they cannot justify access your saved card details for this purpose. But technically the info is there, yes.

OK. +1. -1000. They're clawing it back! :P

Sure. But it's to Mars, with Musk.

It's interesting for everyone, but if the split is US news and World news, this is a US centric story. All of the players are US based. Like I say, the subreddit's the naming convention these communities are based on had very much a "US" goes in news and "RoW" goes into WorldNews ethos.

I don't see policies stating that here. So I think it's a very different situation to the other place (and we can argue about why there's two news communities, but that's another story). But, I was just wondering if the moderation was done in the same vain.

I wonder if not allowing this on world news is a leftover from the reddit split between news/worldnews. In the rules here I cannot see anything that says news = US news. But on reddit the news sub DID have that rule. They would delete any non-us story.

As such worldnews was for all non-US news and in that case deleting this very US centric topic would be fair game.

There isn't that clear cut difference between news/worldnews on the fediverse. It looks like the two communities were created to mirror reddit. But, the rules don't align.

Also, even as a non American. I knew it would be OAN.

I note they make an exemption for the UK. Now, while the UK is no longer part of the EU we do have a version of the GDPR which includes the right of erasure and follows similar rules to the EU GDPR. And is pretty close to "The right to be forgotten". The ICO site about it even references that phrase.

So, I wonder why they think they get to treat us differently. I suspect I know. There are exemptions they can claim to the right of erasure (and I bet they're similar in the EU GDPR). But here's the difference. The UK ICO is a toothless useless organisation they know very well they can either exploit or ignore.

Then I suggest they use an XNOR pointer instead! Checkmate patent trolls!

Regret is such a long word, when I'm so, so tired.

Or, you do the tutorial, play for an hour don't come back for a year and don't know what is going on.