I'm talking about people who would even be in the running to be a CEO at a large company

the last few years, pretty consistently since 2019 with a small percentage dip in CEO departures in 2022. It's a continuing story and an interesting one. No one wants to be CEO if they think things are going to shit and they'll be to blame, even if they know they get a golden parachute out of it.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2020%2F01%2F0...

Russia is not a player in this story.. it's an Israeli app. Nice camard there, you've learned well from all the dems politicians that deflect with "but Russia" and repubs deflecting with "but China".

In this country, being spied on by a foreign power is something that our elected officials happily volunteer for. The media are fine with that part, and wouldn't even be talking about it if the app wasn't insecure.

No idea why you're blaming other countries for the hellscape created by your own country's billionaires.

"Teachers are their to educate"
Yeah okay buddy. You're in no place to be levying new rules on teachers' personal property from your office chair or whatever the fuck.

The lack of ad revenue or data collection is insignificant.. and the students also weren't going to be buying random crap at school. The "stick it to the billionaires" angle here is empty. The goal is for students to read less news and be less likely form their own opinions. Take it from the head of Palantir and rabid Israel supporter Alex Karp: "We tend to think these things happening across college campuses are a sideshow. No, they are the showâ

" you don't see residents who are nothing but skeletons like those in Yemen"

Either you're lying big time or you're glued to the television all day. There are endless images and videos of people in gaza starving because Israel has blockaded all food, water and medical supplies. There were a few who were better fed--Hamas' hostages, who came out looking in start contrast to the emaciated and tortured prisoners released by Israel.

How blithely draconian. Also before you go tattle on another teacher not properly policing students (!!) for their own phone use, you could first learn to spell the word "principal".

How are those two sentences even related?

"They don't read the news in school,"

That could be true, but the lobby is clearly trying to keep all critical discourse around the middle east out of schools, and keeping out phones is critical to that.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2025%2F...

This is a top down effort, and keeping phones out of general ed has been a recent effort in France, in NYC, and even today with Finland in a separate story.

", they don't care about current events in the way adults do."

That part is wrong. the lobby is panicking that the younger generation of Americans does not support them, so clearly younger people are getting their information from other sources, and have their own strong opinions about it.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecanary.co%2Fgloba...

And what does "caring about current events" look like, exactly, when most of those 60 and up (largely republicans) still support Israel as it bombs and starves two million people?

Nope, the ban originated before Trump was elected. Prior tiktok ban bill attempts were considered unpopular and were dead in the water until democrats got the message from their primary lobby that banning it is a must. It's not that Trump would take issue with the ban since that is also his primary lobby, but he was not the reason for the bill passing

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmatzko.substack.com%2Fp%2F...

High school teachers didn't make this bill. I didn't say it was a bad idea, I said it's not the reason for the bill. Why now and not 10-15 years ago? Because only now is the Israel lobby panicking that they've lost support with Americans and especially young people. The root reasons are the same as the tiktok ban

This bill is for an all day ban, what kid isn't looking at their phone between classes?

The real reason is that they don't want kids reading news on social media that could radicalize them against a certain lobby
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aa.com.tr%2Fen%2Fameri...

Hochul even wanted to ban facemasks (yes, a democrat banning masks) at protests
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