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> And that significant difference is that TikTok is a Chinese company, not an American one

Can't repeat this enough. The Americans in here might see that foreigness and national dick-measuring contest as enough justification for a ban. All while either willingly ignoring or relishing in the fact that they do the same thing in other countries. "But we're your allies!" my arse, I trust your government as much as I trust China's, which is to say I don't, at all.

I can't accurately express with words the anger I derive from the hypocrisy of the SV-types in here arguing for a ban on privacy grounds. And to be clear, I'm not trying to defend TikTok here, they do deserve to be banned from every country on Earth. I just wish American companies would get the same treatment, and die as they all deserve.

> I think the bias of Wikipedia is pretty clear polar to that of PragerU

As if. This article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question is still up despite having almost zero pertinent sources.[1] Calling that "polar" is nothing short of a stretch.

At most, Wikipedia could be said to have a neo-liberal bias, an ideology upheld by both of the US' political parties, based on policies alone and not on each individual voter's personal and nuanced adherence. The parties are wrongly assumed to be polar opposites on the political spectrum by most US citizens, but they're not.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kaaYvauNho

> Let the law punish these people One of the people he picked as an example is the law. He's a white supremacist cop from Illinois: https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/01/magic-dirt-.... So what you're asking for can't and won't happen. "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."

The phrase "he doesn't like" is doing a lot of work in this whole thread isn't it? Makes it sound like Travis is scraping other people's data for not having the same favourite colour that he does. However, the people presented as examples in the README are nazis, scammers, homophobes and transphobes. It's an interesting way of minimising calls for genocide.

> Talk about bad UX.

I think you could say this for CLIs in general. While we can all agree that the CLI is great for tasks that require repetition; it's just a PITA for any one-time task. When you just need to do something once and as soon as possible, the manual-help-type-run loop gets tiresome quickly.

Passing options to a program so it can do what most users would want it to do in the first place is nonsensical, and yet that describes the behaviour of many if not all of *nix's tools. It should be the other way around: do what is expected by default, and provide options for different, more uncommon use-cases. Though I suppose this is also a form of baggage from the past that it's very difficult to get rid off because of backwards compatibility.