Ah, ok. That makes a lot more sense lol. Idk why my dumb ass assumed you meant that was like a total amount

Lol honestly I had to search it to make sure they were actually distinct, especially since the venn diagram between them definitely has a large shared space in regards to regulating tech companies

How the hell does all the physical infrastructure an ISP maintains cost that little?

That doesn’t sound like it’s even in the ballpark, given that even the server they might host their website and payment portal on would likely cost more than that in electricity use.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not the same organization as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Andrew Ferguson, chair of the FTC, was originally appointed to the Commission by Biden in 2023 and was made chair by Trump this year. He’s definitely softer on big corporate monopolies and mergers than his predecessor, but has not been quite as much a blowhard as one would normally expect from Trump’s picks.

This post reeks of LLM

Not really equivalent. Most videogames don’t actively encourage you to pursue violence outside of the game, even if they don’t explicitly have a big warning saying “don’t fucking shoot people”.

Several of the big LLMs, by virtue of their programming to be somewhat sycophantic, have encouraged users to follow through on suicidal ideation or self-harm when the user shared those thoughts in chat. One can argue that OpenAI and others have implemented ‘safety’ features for these scenarios, but the fact is that these systems have already lead to several deaths and continue to do so through encouragement of the user to harm themselves or other.