It has precisely 2 purposes: to serve as a pyramid / "greater fool theory" scam, and to hide transactions for crimes like extortion/ransomware, illegal drugs and Kiddie Pr0n.

Precisely this. Facebook is actively banning people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Facebook/Meta is a NAZI platform that needs to be summarily executed.

I'm shocked! Shocked I say!.... well, not that shocked.

The idea that someone can just throw a crap-ton of random data into a system, have it generate a statistically connected node network, and that anything it outputs will be meaningful? Yeah, that's pretty much delusional in itself.

Some day it might occur to you that the 40-year fight to overturn Roe and the ensuing laws restricting abortion are going to end up with women being prosecuted for having an abortion. But that probably won't happen until it affects you or someone close to you.

Arresting a woman who missed a period and 9 months later doesn't have a baby is certainly on the trend line.

That's very useful information to a state that has asserted a compelling interest in knowing when women are pregnant. Some of the inevitable outcomes of that are women being arrested for having an illegal abortion (or even having a miscarriage that the state deems "suspicious") or women being forced to carry a dangerous pregnancy to term. Both of these situations have been documented, and states' access to women's reproductive data increase that likelihood.

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Don't get me wrong, I get the point of these apps, but you have to assume anymore that these apps are going to share any data they think they can monetize. And in this case, that data is of great value to the authorities in jurisdictions that have asserted a compelling interest in regulating pregnancy.

I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but it doesn't take a special insight or million dollar focus group to understand that your average viewer/voter finds this kind of spectacle deceptive, exploitative and a very pointed example of why the public is distrustful of news media.

I don't want to make an unfair assumption here, but are you comparing the people whose children were murdered in their school to someone who "made his own choice" to die of COVID? What conversation do you think ought to come of that?

You've got to be out of your mind to use apps like this and give anyone this kind of information. In the wrong hands, it can get you arrested or killed.

Flo was named in the suit. They settled. It's right in the summary.

Yeah that's kind of the difference between civil law and criminal law.

This highlights the difference between consensual sex work and "trafficking".

It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!).

Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

OF "Models" are up a creek, when the basement dwellers can create a whole character to sell that will do whatever pays the most.

Which will drive down revenue for everyone except those skimming $ off the top, namely the OF owners.