That's one small gain for some content companies; one massive step backward for all humankind.

I am rooting, as always, for the entire canard of modern IP law to be vaporized with prejudice.
In a world that runs on technology and content, everything is IP.
IP controls are the absolute best way to incentivize and ensure future consolidation of every nanometer of human civilization into one giant globe-spanning monopoly that owns everything and everyone.
We will not avoid the trillionaire Weyland-Yutani dystopia so long as IP exists the way it does now. Indeed, we may already be past the event horizon of inevitability.

To watch the 21st century progress of IP law among voracious competing tech/content firms is nothing more than watching a recap of the 13th through 20th centuries as voracious entities like the Dutch East India Company and all the European colonial powers competed for exclusive control of new territories.

When the hunter-seeker drones and genome-specific contagions come for you and your children, and all the tools you might use to defend yourself are illegal, remember that you and your children built the drones and diseases with your own hands - with every purchase, every tap, every stream, every meme, every prompt, every license, every subscription.

We built the circus of this Colosseum, together. And now, do you hear it, Clarice? The roaring of the lions?
Ask not for whom the lions roar, citizen. They roar for thee.

It sounds like Google's answer to Microsoft Power Automate, with the results rendered in a way that mimics a browser GUI.
Fitting, since the results are likely to be similar to what happens when RPG characters think they're opening a treasure/loot box and it turns out to be a toothy Mimic.

For the same reason - it doesn't change the original comment's conclusion.
I can fully stipulate to framing the last 130 years of U.S. history with a dystopian MIC Imperium narrative, and that neither strengthens nor weakens the OC's conclusion that "Sooner or later every country will realize that, politics and racism aside, there simply isn't the capability to absorb more immigrants. Excessive population will lead to catastrophic collapse of the nations currently accepting immigrants. There is no easy answer to this situation."

Even if 100% of every social and environmental ill in the world were directly caused by the USA, that would not change a conclusion that the USA cannot continue absorbing tens of millions of immigrants without economic and cultural consequences that could prove annihilative. The question that matters is, what do we do about that possibility? And there's a complex range of potential responses to that question.

The problem leftward folks don't understand is, their messaging - whether intentional or not - over the past few decades sounds to rightward (and some central) folks like "We deserve to light ourselves on fire to save everyone else as punishment for our past/ongoing sins". And the truth is that for a not-insignificant percentage of leftist thinkers/influencers/polemicists, that is literally what they believe. The reason that's a problem is simple: it isn't a political argument; it's a moral one. And you'll only get enough people to vote a moral belief into policy if they also share your moral values surrounding guilt and punishment. You can quote all kinds of statistics about replacement birth rates, about migrant workers being a net positive to GDP and essential infrastructure services like roads and housing, and how the pyramid-scheme of the welfare state requires us to import new taxpayers to delay SS/Medicare austerity until GenZ are 65. None of that will ever be heard over the moralistic fatwa that "America is the great Satan and we don't have a moral right to want to close the doors now, because we had them open in the past and also it's our own fault so many people want to enter the doors in the first place so we should feel ashamed of our self-preservation instincts".

That's the kind of deeply conflicted doctrine that leaves a huge gap for a chaotic outlier like DJT to bull his way into the West Wing china shop.

Same, on all counts.
A couple decades ago there were several years when Opera was absolutely the most advanced, most feature-rich, most user-centric, most customizable browser on the planet. Especially if you were a researcher needing to do lots of nonlinear browsing where you are constantly spawning/closing/reloading multiple tabs. KB shortcuts and mouse gestures were killer; I helped several visually-impaired people get it configured so they didn't need to rely on precise clicking of screen-rendered buttons and site navigation features. Using any of the other browsers of the day felt as laborious as trying to play an graphical MMORPG over a 4800bps modem without call-waiting disabled.

Because it doesn't alter the poster's original conclusion/assertion in any way, so it doesn't add anything useful to the discussion.
Because its value therefore begins and ends with scoring Zing-The-Empire points, which are basically emotional NFTs -- you can collect them, and then... what?

No.

Growing concerns among over how global migration patterns over the past 40 years impact the economic and cultural futures of every country on the planet, is pressuring the rise of "far-right" parties.

Spontaneous combustion doesn't exist. Combustion only occurs when things like fuel, heat/pressure, and oxygen are all shoved together.

Every time you dismissively hand-wave away those concerns because you don't think other people's feelings, drives, fears, and aspirations for the future are valid compared to your more-enlightened opinions, you are adding to the population reservoirs of sentiment that fuel "far-right" parties.

Try listening.
Try acknowledging.
Try reflecting.
Try redirecting.
Try doing the work of actual empathy, not just the performative convenient pseudo-empathy that people talk about on social media but only apply to those who already believe like you.

Or don't. Insist that you are right, that you are more enlightened, that you are better, that others aren't worth listening to, that their concerns are fabricated.
Understand that when you choose that, you've left the path of empathy or democracy or historical dialectic or whatever else you profess to believe in.
Understand that you've left no other alternative; it's Shark vs. Jets, pistols at dawn, might makes right. The biggest guns and highest body count wins.
Tonight when you're doomscrolling and wondering how did we get here, how the world once seemed troubled-but-bright, and now everything just seems to keep spiralling out -- understand that all of us are having the world we all voted for. Yes, even you. We built this together.

Yes, because that's precisely how monopolies work.
Chrome effectively has a 20-year monopoly in the Internet search/ads/SEO business, which they use to leverage their other products.
Why pay extra for choice (regardless of whether it's truly differentiated or simply performative) when you can get the existing monopolist product for free?

Gachiakuta!

Precisely!
Under our current, insane, anti-human scheme of IP law, we've said that the act of access can be owned by a corporation. The corporation, and only the corporation, decides whether, when, and how you have the right to perform the act of access of their service, data, and infrastructure. That's the #1 driver of virtualizing everything. Once everything is ephemeral, personal ownership will be literally impossible.

Under our insane, anti-human scheme of IP law, you do not, nor can you ever, own anything. You neither own the product, nor do you even own the access. The corporation temporarily, within certain restrictions, subject to 47 screens of Terms, allows you to perform the act of access. Thus, since your account/membership does not transfer ownership of access to you, you cannot in turn transfer a "right to access" to others. Your ostensible "right to access" is not actually anything resembling a right which arises from or attaches to you. Your right to access is nothing more than the right to do what you are told to do.
At least for today.
On this device.
Over this network.
At this address.
Using this UserID.

All subject to revocation at any time. And whenever it's too legally onerous to directly revoke your access, they can simply deplatform whatever content/value you were getting from the service, because you never owned any of it at any time. And then you can continue to access the platform and infrastructure if you like. But there's no There there.

For perhaps 5 more years.10 at most.

Then that training/skill will atrophy, as all training/skills atrophy when automated. Those who are toward the end of their careers will find themselves turning more and more to the BotDoc because it's just faster and they're too swamped with paperwork and interfacing with the financial/insurance side of the clinic. Meanwhile, the new MDs and DOs minted post 2024 will be "Digital Natives" - which is a useful spin phrase which means "Dependent from day 1". It's only a matter of time before the Insurance companies realize they can offer incentives to doctors (and patients) who use the Insco's BotDoc. Just like Walmart and Dollar General, it'll be offered cheaper at first. Once the dependency takes root, the Insco actuaries and compsci folks will be tasked to tweak the model to weight individual diagnoses and prognoses to maximize profits across the full operational scope of the business.

Even the world's greatest classical pianists don't just sit down and play Rachmaninoff. They work on hours of scales and arpeggios and octaves several days a week.
The work isn't the performance. The performance is merely the outcome of Work + Time.
The work IS the work.

I can voluntarily give 10 different friends access to my Disney+ streaming account*, but that doesn't mean those 10 people now have a legal, valid license to access Disney+ content.

*I do not actually have a Disney+ account, because ew, Disney.

Huh, interesting. Didn't expect that you were one of the "muh freedom" bros.

You have total freedom to type/paste into the comment box whatever you wish in whatever way you wish, the exact same as everyone else here.
Others have the freedom to mod/flag your comments in accordance with how you choose to exercise your freedom.
Play chatbot games, win chatbot downmod prizes.
Chatbot around, find out.
The freedom is yours!

So the health care professionals who spent the last 20 years complaining that patients go to Wikipedia and WebMD and Yahoo!Answers for medical diagnosis and info, are now going to charge us money to relay to us a diagnosis they got off a piece of software created from Wikipedia and WebMD and Yahoo!Answers.

Accounts (like the GP) that merely Ctrl-C,V bot posts should be modded/flagged/banned the same as bots.