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Charles C. W. Cooke

@charlescwcooke
21 posts
2025-12-03
I like Waymo, but the moment that this argument switches, as it inevitably will, from “we have a cool new technology that works and is available everywhere and saves lives” to “you must now be banned from driving your own car,” I will become a foe.
2025-12-03 View on X
New York Times

An analysis of Waymo data covering nearly 100M driverless miles in four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers

I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash.  The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding, but we all knew.

2025-09-17
This is illegal. He's not allowed to do this. There's nothing in the statute permitting this. He isn't “delaying” it; he is refusing to enforce this law.
2025-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump extends ByteDance's deadline to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized this week

nothing screams “protecting America” like Michelin-starred foreign spyware by proxy. Trump cheerfully extended ByteDance's deadline to December 16 so that Oracle, Silver Lake, [ima...

This is illegal. He's not allowed to do this. There's nothing in the statute permitting this. He isn't “delaying” it; he is refusing to enforce this law.
2025-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business

Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake  —  TikTok's U.S. business …

2025-08-23
Preposterous move. If Obama had done this, so many of the people defending it would have correctly condemned it as overreach and interference and “picking winners and losers.”
2025-08-23 View on X
Intel

Intel says the US will make an $8.9B investment by purchasing 433.3M primary shares of Intel common stock for $20.47/share; INTC closed on August 22 at $24.80

U.S. Government to make $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock as company builds upon its more than $100 billion expansion of resilient semiconductor supply chain

2025-06-20
Brazenly illegal.
2025-06-20 View on X
Associated Press

Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions, and it's unclear how many times the deadline can be extended

Again NZ Herald : Trump gives TikTok 90 more days to find buyer, again delayed ban Joe DePaolo / Mediaite : ‘Brazenly Illegal’: Conservatives Lash Out at Trump for Executive Order ...

2025-06-07
There is no authority in the statute for this action. It is invented from whole cloth. The president took an oath to execute the law, and he is violating it by refusing to do so.
2025-06-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began

again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : TikTok Ban Extension Reportedly Coming Again: POTUS Trump to Give It More Time After June 19 Jame...

There is no authority in the statute for this action. It is invented from whole cloth. The president took an oath to execute the law, and he is violating it by refusing to do so.
2025-06-07 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone

Vice-president JD Vance pushed for right-wing media star's inclusion in a deal for video app  —  Alex Rogers in Washington … Bluesky: @evelyndouek , @justinhendrix , @paleofuture ,...

2025-03-22
If you need a loan to get your food delivered by taxi, don't get your food delivered by taxi.
2025-03-22 View on X
CNET

DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option

in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito Jordan Valinsky / CNN : DoorDash will soon let users eat now and pay in installments Niket Nishant / Reuters : NYSE-bound Klarna sig...

2021-06-09
There's really no point in having a distributed Internet if every major player is going to put their infrastructure behind the same proxy. https://techcrunch.com/...
2021-06-09 View on X
Associated Press

Fastly, which was hit by a major outage on Tuesday, says the problem was caused by a bug that was triggered by a customer configuring their service

LONDON (AP) — Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world's top websites to go offline briefly this week …

There's really no point in having a distributed Internet if every major player is going to put their infrastructure behind the same proxy. https://techcrunch.com/...
2021-06-09 View on X
TechCrunch

Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed

2021-06-08
There's really no point in having a distributed Internet if every major player is going to put their infrastructure behind the same proxy. https://techcrunch.com/...
2021-06-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed

Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal …

2021-03-29
“Break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets” is perhaps more telling than Warren intended. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-29 View on X
Vox

Sources: Amazon's recent tweets aimed at politicians came after Bezos told execs they were not pushing back enough on criticism that was inaccurate

Snarky tweets targeting Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told executives they weren't pushing back hard enough on critics.

“Break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets” is perhaps more telling than Warren intended. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-29 View on X
Bloomberg

After a monthslong campaign, the union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, AL, has concluded and vote counting begins on Tuesday, overseen by the NLRB

- A tussle over ballot eligibility could last for several days  — With stakes high, Amazon and union waged testy information war

2021-03-28
“Break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets” is perhaps more telling than Warren intended. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Amazon is pursuing an increasingly aggressive PR strategy, picking fights with Democratic politicians such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Twitter

Who is Amazon trying to convince?  —  Amazon is intensifying its bizarre online public relations strategy of picking increasingly petty …

2021-03-27
“Break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets” is perhaps more telling than Warren intended. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-27 View on X
The Verge

Amazon is pursuing an increasingly aggressive PR strategy, picking fights with Democratic politicians such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Twitter

Who is Amazon trying to convince?  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Amazon is intensifying its bizarre online public relations strategy …

2020-05-30
Just to be clear: The president can't take away statutory legal protections, and we shouldn't indulge the idea that he can. His job is to uphold the law, not negate it. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …

Just to be clear: The president can't take away statutory legal protections, and we shouldn't indulge the idea that he can. His job is to uphold the law, not negate it. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping u...

The order is about as pathetic as it is possible to get. It's based on a misunderstanding of the law, its instincts are rankly authoritarian, and, after all that, it doesn't actually do anything. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping u...

The order is about as pathetic as it is possible to get. It's based on a misunderstanding of the law, its instincts are rankly authoritarian, and, after all that, it doesn't actually do anything. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …

2020-05-29
Just to be clear: The president can't take away statutory legal protections, and we shouldn't indulge the idea that he can. His job is to uphold the law, not negate it. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-29 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …