Yeah all that bluster in Congress about TikTok collecting people’s data and yet not one single privacy bill materialized anywhere. Not even from Democrats. It’s almost like the privacy concerns were not even real.

I made my Smart TV into a dumb TV by never activating the smart TV functions. And then I plugged a relatively cheap computer into it. So I don’t have this kind of problem.

A little of both since he is extremely popular in his country and he has also either jailed his opposition or they have gone missing or died mysteriously.

I think you underestimate just exactly how popular Putin is with the Russian people, or I should say was originally. I don’t think he’s as popular now because of the “police action” in Ukraine and the number of Russians who have died to it and the economic hit the country has taken as a result of it. But he was insanely popular with the Russian populace through most of the 2010s.