From the article: Proposals to pay for broadband networks by imposing new fees on Big Tech companies "are built on a false premise," Meta executives wrote in a blog post today.

"Network fee proposals do not recognize that our investments in content drive the business model of telecom operators," Meta executives Kevin Salvadori and Bruno Cendon Martin wrote. Meta's comments came a few weeks after Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters spoke out against the proposal being reviewed by European regulators.

Meta executives said telecom operators and content application providers (CAPs) "are symbiotic businesses, occupying different but complementary roles in the digital ecosystem. Every year, Meta invests tens of billions of euros in our apps and platforms—such as Facebook, Instagram, and Quest—to facilitate the hosting of content. Billions of people go online every day to access this content, creating the demand that allows telecom operators to charge people for Internet access. Our investment in content literally drives the revenue and business model of telecom operators."

Internet service providers in the EU argue that Big Tech companies should pay a "fair share" toward network-building costs. In the US, Federal Communications Commission Republican Brendan Carr claims that "Big Tech has been enjoying a free ride on our Internet infrastructure while skipping out on the billions of dollars in costs needed to maintain and build that network."

Big Tech companies don't actually get free access to the Internet, though. Anyone distributing content over the Internet pays their own providers, builds their own network infrastructure, or does some combination of the two.

We're also allowed to make demands of the companies we work for. It's a two-way street. Companies only have power over us insofar as we allow them to have power over us

This is exactly where they wanted to be.

10 years ago, Ford would have had to make a very different looking vehicle with unimpressive fuel range, and a push to have an infrastructure for electric charging.

Tesla managed to do all this and party tricks and Cellphone back and forth at the expense of build quality.

Now Ford and others manufacturers have most of the political backing and infrastructure to make better built car with price per volume and better manufacturing techniques inside a conventional looking vehicle.

The big manufacturers didn't want to fail such a niche plan, meanwhile, a Startup like Tesla had everychance of succeding or failing. And it succeeded.

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This is just going to have kids sneaking to do it anyways. Why not... just regulate social media companies and make them less toxic for everyone? If we regulated engagement algorithms alone that would have the biggest impact. Instead we get empty legislation.

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Eh having the web-app shortcut is annoying and have to frequently verify your browser over and over again. A native app would be a much nicer experience, and plus don't they want to sell upgraded accounts? Can't do that so easily without a true app.

I don't. Its very unlikely with the age they gave and the total population of users.

Like I said in the first comment, with a sample 10 or 20, its to be expected the median and average would vary a lot.

It is very unlikely, given the age they provided of the average, the median would stoop as low as a kid's age, under 13, or even under 16.

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Disclaimer: that is monthly active users. Though the second theory, while total number of users will be different than this graph, I imagine that the older the person is, the less likely they will continue using the app, or use it less often per month. As in monthly active users will skew lower in age than the total number of users.

So then maybe at one point in time, lets say hourly, the age of active users on TikTok may be very low.

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See how nuanced we are getting?

Itll never be one data point. With how big TikTok is, single data points lose value.

Don't take this personally, but have you ever actually shopped for a house? I've done it 10+ times now and I've always had options that weren't HOA's. Some people actually prefer to be in one. I've had both good and bad experiences with them. Of the three houses I've actually purchased, only two were in HOA's. In my current one, nobody every really shows up for the HOA meetings and pretty much anybody who wants to be president or on the board can do so with almost no opposition.

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Yes a big tech company like apple is run by people who barely understand zoom

I work in logistics and manufacturing, so me and my entire team have to show up to the office anyways to do actual physical work.

Even when I was in engineering and managing a global team I still went into the office and walked the production floor.

Can I just say that I'm glad this is happening? I use Tiktok and I'm seeing a lot of clips from this hearing in Tiktok and the Zoomers can see how incredibly stupid our representatives are about technology. Hopefully this will galvanize the youth into voting for younger and smarter people.

There was one guy asking if Tiktok could access the WiFi Network, ffs!!!

Makes me laugh a little bit every time I see one of these conversations discussing how bad it is to have to go back to the office.

A few years ago, the same conversations were about how awful it was going to be to have to work from home.
Reference: I worked from home for my entire long career.
Not everyone can self-manage themselves, and others suffer because of it.

Depends on who you're firing haha. You can't assume 100% of employees are good at their job and mass layoffs are a good way to get rid of the not so stellar workers.

Indeed, they have layed off a lot of people.

So what company are you a middle manager at? Out of curiosity.

It’s not. Banning the company (or companies) doesn’t fix the main issue at hand.

OMG< this is exactly what I wanted to happen! Now if we can just get them to start banging.

It already works the same on mobile and desktop browsers

Yeah I’m sure being the same price as a normal F150 and having zero competition had nothing to do with it. It’s also not coming out so it’s utterly irrelevant also.

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Musk first teased it in March of 2019, which was 4 years ago bud.

I’ve heard they’ve been secretly doing quiet layoffs (or redundancy in positions on product team), but they’ve been under the radar

Perhaps, but that's not what's happening. Instead of being adults about it and finding a job which aligns better with their preferred work environment, they whine about it and hope that if they hold their breath and stamp their feet enough they'll get what they want. Maybe, if they're lucky, they'll even get a cookie.