This is not an investigation of any wrongdoing, it's their attempt to impose "age verification" on the Internet starting with porn.
kbal
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1% is a little much. 2% is clearly excessive. 5% is ... I don't even know.
I don't know much about the finances of Canada's cozy little club of giant telecoms but it's very tempting to imagine that they became accustomed to ever-increasing profits as they jacked up the prices to unsustainable levels over the past twenty years, and now they've finally hit the point where it cannot be sustained any more. The line no longer goes up. Maybe it's not exactly the final crisis of capitalism, but it's a start.
Is it a big spoiler, or did you mean to say "protagonist" instead of antagonist?
Noscript user here; we don't generally have that problem on fedia/mbin. It's mostly just mastodon "quote posts" and imgur that don't show up unless you allow their servers.
What makes you think they'd change prices on a whim? More likely they'll change the prices based on whatever they learn from the browser fingerprint of whoever at your table is first to scan the code. Better get the intern to go first, just in case.
Most of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would've come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.
What do you mean "almost"?
About 97% less salacious than you'd guess from the headline.
Makes sense to me. AI bullshit generators may be worse than useless for most of the things people try to do with them, but they might just be the perfect tool for rationalizing the systematic looting of formerly productive companies by private equity.
Why would anyone create an account when they can just go to some random website on the far side of the world that doesn't follow that system to get whatever they're looking for? Even when people got their pornography from magazines the stereotype was of even supposedly mature adults being weird about it — wearing dark glasses, going to the 7-11 in a part of town where they won't be recognized, and looking all furtive and embarrassed with their copy of Hustler at the till. Vilifying porn and trying to make people register for some kind of age verification service or anything else in order to see it is just going to make people even more secretive about it just like the good old days, and everyone will go to some dodgy unlicensed website hosted by a shell company in the Seychelles instead of the strictly regulated law-abiding Canadian purveyors.