It looks like they do, yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Wing_v._United_States
The fact that they bothered to pass a law at all could be argued to be a tacit admission that tiktok has constitutional rights, if it doesn't then you could just march in and confiscate it's servers, since it wouldn't have the right to due process.
In my head this argument is a little shaky, since it seems to be effectively arguing that Americans have the right to access foreign propoganda machines?
I don't see why that's shaky? There a plenty of books written by members of the CPC (Including Xi Jinping himself) on Amazon, in English, should Americans be banned from accessing that foreign propaganda?
“Hitperson” makes it sound like some HR-designated position, awkwardly titled in some neutral, milquetoast way as not to offend anyone.
That was intentional, I'm happy someone noticed.
The hitperson is the only competent employee left at Boeing.
They aren't "real" people either way, even the human ones are just drones reading a script that someone paid them to read.
I suspect the plausible deniability of responsibility is a feature not a bug to many of the bureaucrats.
The military isn't buying from Amazon, they buy from "xyz hardware supplies ltd", who buy from Amazon and charge three times the price to the military.
Some will be companies that specialise in sourcing obsolete hardware, who just buy shit off Amazon/eBay and issue the correct paperwork.
I've read that the US government has to give preference in contract bids to small businesses, veteran owned, woman owned, etc, businesses, which is great in theory, but it can create situations like this.
Eh, most of those will just be scrapers, and fediverse inter-server communication is technically a bot.
Isn't that a good thing? If facebook bans them they may actually learn what opsec means.
Richard Stallman
How is he controversial? the only negative thing I've seen about FUTO is the proprietary license grayjay is under.
I feel like they would need protection from sudden onset suicidality first.