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1. about 9 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   So…. the whole desert with ONE camel? I hope that camel got double pay for all that work

2. about 9 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I’d bet law enforcement would say she’s received “training” playing a video game called “Tomb Raider”

3. about 9 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Did that supposedly secret information ever get published? The parent company that owns tiktok says they’ve never seen it.

   And once again: the problem is NOT tiktok, the problem is that ANY corporation or random yahoo with a website can get your information and sell it to whoever pays their asking price.

   Every time you put your information on a website’s signup page, you’re handing over information that can be sold to a rogue state.

   If you are donating to NPR, every time you donate they collect what information you provide and sell it for extra cash.

   I’d wager even gocomics has sold our information to some random data broker(s). Yet here you are, posting on their website.

   The problem is not specifically tiktok, the problem is that our data is up for sale to any bidder, and banning one single app is not going to meaningfully change that in any way, shape, or form.

4. 1 day ago on Lio

   I thought this was a Lio comic but instead we get a lnock-off Chihuly….

5. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There is nothing tiktok does/did that is any different than what twitter or facebook or google do.

   At least with facebook we have incontrovertible evidence that they put their thumbs heavily on several scales to tip elections in the US, UK, and other Western democracies. Due in part because of the way they collect, sell, and use your personal information against you.

   Are you in support of banning facebook the way tiktok is being banned?

6. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Snowden ended up in Moscow but there is some debate on whether he went there willingly

7. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   This is the heart of the so-called tiktok ban: it’s not that China can steal our personal information and sell it to rogue states, it’s that ANY corporation can just sell whatever information they have on you to rogue states. And the only reason we’re banning tiktok is because of racism and xenophobia.

8. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The dark web stuff doesn’t even register compared to how much money the corporation can make selling your information legally on the open market.

9. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   No overseas banking required, just an accountant with a vivid imagination

10. 3 days ago on Herb and Jamaal

    We could avoid the necessity of hoping good people win the lotto, and tax capital gains as income, and put the top marginal rates back to 90%