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Twitter owner Elon Musk requested a meeting with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan late last year, but he was rebuffed and told to stop dragging his heels on providing documents and depositions needed for the FTC investigation into Twitter's privacy and data practices, a New York Times report said yesterday.
"In a Jan. 27 letter declining the meeting, Ms. Khan told a Twitter lawyer to focus on complying with investigators' demands for information before she would consider meeting with Mr. Musk," the NYT wrote.
Twitter has to comply with conditions in a May 2022 settlement in which it agreed to pay a $150 million penalty for targeting ads at users with phone numbers and email addresses collected from those users when they enabled two-factor authentication. Last year's settlement was reached after the FTC said Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 settlement that prohibited the company from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday April 07, @02:51AM (1 child)
>We don't need to grow our population of helpless people more and I think UBI would be a fast way to do that growing.
I don't think of UBI as encouraging helplessness, I think of it as giving just enough financial security to allow people to do their own work.
Who is more likely to build their own home? Someone who has to flip burgers 40 hours a week to have enough money for food, or somebody who has their basic expenses taken care of and can spend their time to assemble affordable materials into a home?
Any time I do a basic construction project, well over 80% of the expense is in labor, not materials.
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Friday April 07, @12:30PM
The flip burgers person because they're working and learning. Nobody in the developed world has to flip burgers 40 hours a week to barely feed themselves (I grant that the rest of living expenses might be much greater, but UBI won't help with that!). The pay is much better than that. And what's missed here is that the flip burgers job is a gateway to other work that pays better, including, for example, construction work where you can actually learn how to build homes. Meanwhile the UBI person hasn't done a thing to learn how to work, much less how to turn "affordable materials" into a viable home.
And I can't help but note how low your expectations of the UBI person are. They're a pet or zoo animal that can afford to make its own home! Like swallows! Mind you they'll be stuffed in a box somewhere with couch and TV equivalent because we won't have the space for billions of cute, eclectic homes.
Once again, we already know how this will turn out because it has already happened on a similar scale today. There's a lot of couch potatoes out there right now. And anyone who would become awesome with UBI can become awesome with today's work environment. UBI fixes nothing.