This is a test balloon. One state is needed to overcome all the technical hurdles like clearing VPNs for work. Once that is done it will be roled out everywhere.

Without ruling out VPNs, all the other internet laws don’t make sense. So this step is necessary and almost inevitable.

We already have systemd.

2025-03-13 Senate Received by the Secretary of the Senate

https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB2420/2025

It takes less than a year to lock things down.

Just flush and use the water from the toilet. After all it is a WC.

It’s the other way round. They can now do anything and people think it’s a distraction from the Epstein files.

Companies are valued by earnings-per-share, independent of the assets. So if the P/E ratio is too low the company costs less than its assets and it pays off to sell the parts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price–earnings_ratio

In this case I heard a rumor that Amazon did it to dominate the toy market, so losses could have been acceptable.

How are the “unofficial” streaming sites financed if people only pay for VPN?

A video of that event exists. It was Saddam Hussein.