Companies lie to governments and the public all the time. I doubt that even if something were found and the case were lost, it would lead to prison or any truly severe punishment. No money was stolen and no lives were put at risk. At worst, it would likely end in a fine, and then it would be forgotten, especially given Meta’s repeated violations of user trust.

The reality is that most users do not seem to care. For many, WhatsApp is simply “free SMS,” tied to a phone number, so it feels familiar and easy to understand, and the broader implications are ignored.

Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the government. The fact that there would be no punishment is why they would tell the truth.

The government is pretty harsh when they find out you lied under oath. Corporate officers do not lie to the government frequently.

I do not believe them either. The swift start of the investigation by U.S. authorities only suggests there was no obstacle to opening one, not that nothing could be found. By “could not,” I mean it is not currently possible to confirm, not that there is necessarily nothing there.

Personally, I would never trust anyone big enough that it(in this case Meta) need and want to be deeply entangled in politics.

If China can and will do it, it is naive to assume other superpowers with their own interests, especially when they have convenient access to your data, would not do the same. More likely in country when business is so tightly interconnected with politics.

Do not forget that it is also cheaper. Main difference would be scalability which you do not inherently need. Not for ordinary bau.

Exactly. People used to think that aws is somehow convenient(partially true) and much cheaper which it absolutely isn't. Hooking on anything trendy and pretending it solve all the issues is tech illness.

For example micro services. You do not need infrastructure heavy software paradigms for large majority of use cases but it was just blindly accepted as new standart which we are now, again, moving away.

It is good for EU but I belive he was pointing to these hurr durr emigrants bad people. Usually the same people which conveniently always forget that they probalby come as much poorer people than these ones.

People rarely recognize that force can be turned on them until it happens. If one side uses force and the other refuses to, you cannot expect the first to grasp that force is always a two way street, because for them it is not real until they feel it.

Force can be turned on even if there was no force before. Biden didn't have anything like the current ICE, but Trump just made one out of thin air and then turned it on people.

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

Surprisingly convenient accident that happened miraculously just a few days after ownership transfer to the US owners.

I do not think that nuclear power is viewed same as nuclear war heads. One is perceived as potentional ecological catasprophe and the second one as a weapon of retaliation.

I honestly don't think most people understand either. Younger generations are a bit more open minded, but for a lot of people who lived through the news reports of Cs137-fallout from Chernobyl raining down on them, nuclear anything is represents an invisible and scary boogyman.

I like this explanation why people in old soviet block tent much more to support nuclear energy. When Chernobyl accident happened, communists we're mainly silent about that but countries which we're affected and had a free press were (rightfully) panicking so general population became scared about the use of nuclear as a energy source.

Time for a Nordic nuke is at least from 2008.