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I hope that's not a load-bearing "likely."

Meta will now have the chance to defend itself, but if the Commission’s decision is made final, Zuck and Co. could face a noncompliance fine of up to 6 percent of its worldwide annual turnover. In 2025, that was $200.97 billion, meaning a potential fine of up to $12 billion.

Ditto here.

Best guess : Web interfaces are known for being inconsistent because they don't follow any particular OS-specific design language. And I've seen people complaining about MacOS being really inconsistent, especially in its use of menu icons (what an essay!), and I've seen some people complain the bad UI practices come from iOS.

Does the introduction of media that's downloaded from the internet and locked to a single proprietary device present extra issues here?

I presume this will drive a lot of people away from the platform entirely, but it must be a massive headache for game preservationists

Yes, in the context of him selling a tech product and in the context of him having nothing else to say about Trump, Vance, and the Republican establishment, his praise is clear.

Focusing on corporate Dems, ignoring appointees like Lina Khan, and requiring them to change, was the only condition in the original statement. Which is ironic because now that you admit Republicans are bad (and I repeat, everybody knew this back then, just read the comments), Dems have gotten worse overall so his statement still remains.

What part of "the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses" sounds like the praise of just one thing and not a blanket endorsement

If you actually believed this after four years of the Trump presidency, you are either extremely gullible or dishonest in your framing.

And yes, praising the actions of Trump and his admin is equivalent to praising the entities themselves. Don't be obtuse.

It was never true, despite your historical revisionism.

I just linked the original post of Proton CEO Andy Yen praising Donald Trump for you too.

Yes they have. In fact if you read the other section I bolded for you:

the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

As a bonus, here is Andy Yen praising Donald Trump for appointing a corporate-captured Republican judge

I think he gave it a fair shot (including spending money on Microsoft apps!), although plenty of the complaints are from the perspective of a Linux user migrating to Windows. For example, the average Windows user won't worry about dual booting.

Personally, I think the biggest mistake was to not try out FOSS versions of things like Firefox and Thunderbird, but I appreciated the insight into Edge for example.

In the increasingly slim chance you aren't just pretending to be ignorant, the official Proton statement makes it clear that all Republicans are the better option, so yes this is praise of Vance.

The cope is the most important part. They aren't criticizing Democrats in a vacuum, they're doing it to say JD Vance, the Trump administration, and (in the post that sparked this) Donald Trump and his corporate captured Republican judge are all good.

I put the JD Vance praise in bold so you could see it.