If you take it at face value, which you should really never do when conservatives are involved.

By my estimation, this (and bills like it) are intended to do two things:

1. Reduce younger people’s access to points of view outside of the US political mainstream. In particular, Republican politicians seem very convinced that TikTok is turning kids gay/trans/atheist/communist/etc.
2. Allow for aggrieved conservatives to extract money via lawsuit from corporations Republican politicians view as hostile to them. Because laws like this will obviously be circumvented, and these laws are written such that the platform is liable in these cases, these laws open them up to potentially millions of lawsuits every time a teenager gets an Instagram account.

Because of limits on prescription drug price negotiations in the U.S., politicians south of the border have argued their health-care systems should simply buy more drugs from Canada.

A 2021 report by the Rand Corporation found that Canadian prices were just 46 per cent of those in the United States because Ottawa limits how much drugmakers can charge for medicines. The U.S. lets the free market dictate drug prices.

Literally. We could simply set our own identical price controls.

You think it’ll make money? The Avengers game barely made any money, right? And that was the Avengers. There have been two Suicide Squad movie bombs.

The enthusiast audience who could name Rocksteady already know this thing is radioactive.

It’s the same as Apple Arcade, essentially.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/P6XL8

The gist of the article is mainly: there isn’t any evidence China is actually subsidizing green tech, it’s just that land, labor, and materials are cheaper there and they’ve massively scaled production. The US and its allies claim that because their prices are so low they must be cheating, but there’s little evidence to support this, and retaliatory tariffs are kneecapping the West’s efforts to decarbonize.