Also, if you do auctions across international borders, how do you even prosecute somebody who does not obey the rules of an auction?

On that topic of international law … how do you prevent users from buying and selling things that are illegal to buy and sell, at least in some jurisdictions? What do you do when users across different federated instances with different rules are trying to buy/sell guns, drugs, and child porn?

Yeah, it would be full of scammers on poorly moderated instances or their own private instances. The legit instances would have to work constantly to keep themselves defederated from all the scammers.

Why not just skip a step and have an AI girlfriend?

If they’re all delayed the same it would have the same effect. In order to prevent that it would require some form of coordination amongst them.

A delay randomized within a certain range could accomplish this without needing coordination.

Are the new features that it gets rid of the microphone and the internet connection?

If not, how much do I have to pay to keep these out of my house? What – you mean I can keep these out for free? Well sign me up!

Aylo’s lawsuit does not challenge SB 73’s provision prohibiting the websites covered by the law from sharing information about VPNs.

Well, somebody should challenge that as well. Seems like a clear-cut 1st amendment violation to me.

One of the original design considerations for what became the internet was that it should be able to automatically route around outages and allow communications to still get through, even if many of its nodes were taken out by nuclear war.

Finding a way to get around blockages is practically what the internet was designed to do.