I don’t think that any of those places have legal protection against a sellout like that.

Yes.

Depends on the location of the instance. The EU and California have laws for that, for example.

Hamas wants peace by eradicating Israel. I don’t think that the two can find common ground there.

Freedom of the press is an important part of a democratic society. It’s perfectly fine to not like what they’re publishing (and I certainly don’t like a lot of things that are published), but if you start prosecuting journalists based on what you like and what you don’t like, others will do so as well.

Every journalist filters stuff. They might be biased, but it’s still journalism.

I’m waiting for the day the stupid association of Foxconn and Apple will die. Foxconn produces for everybody, Apple is only a tiny customer of them, like so many other.

Assange isn’t a whistle blower. He was a journalist who published information given to him by whistleblowers (like Manning).

The Ukraine has a ton of corruption on all levels, which would be a big problem. The EU only allows corruption at the top.

As far as I have followed this issue, this is a US problem. Pharmaceuticals are treated very differently in Europe. For example, there’s no public ads for prescription drugs allowed, meaning that patients usually don’t push doctors to prescribe random stuff they’ve heard about on TV.

Cops, at least in the US, are also a violent street gang.

There are many new technical papers that are only written in Chinese these days, especially in AI.

Lemmy is also more of alpha-quality software. The admin tools are pretty much non-existent. On my own instance, I’ve had to go into the database to fix issues a lot using straight SQL, and I have like ten users on the platform. One of those issues caused my admin account to no longer being able to log in, another caused the whole instance to be down.

The biggest impact is on indies that may have very few devs. If you’re not making AAA or even AA games, it could mean closing down.

Yes, but striking doesn’t help small devs at all.

Game developers don’t have unions. Besides, this is a B2B conflict. Workers don’t care if it’s more expensive to publish a game.

People in the airplane industry were already wondering where Russia gets all of the replacement parts from.

In addition to a very xenophobic culture that doesn’t allow the addition of missing working-age people via immigration.

He has to pay back his debts, and Musk likes to be paid in praise.

Are you aware that Lemmy is written by people like that? I haven’t checked, but I don’t think that they’re all teenagers.

Not really, the world of Mad Max appears to have an infinite amount of gas supply. This is very unlikely to happen in the real world.