They are not the source, per se, but they are the deciding entity as to what moves in the process. Legislation cannot move without leadership, which includes committee chairs, majority leader, floor leader, whip, etc. Under a very technical way a discharge petition could be brought to force it out of committee, but ..that's extremely rare[0].

[0.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition#Uses_since_...

The German housing laws are protective with rent spikes.

Does the solution to turn off commenting negatively impact sharing news stories? Maybe another way: What is the business rational to allow commenting on news stories?

That appears to not exist anymore and replaced by a person's feeelings as more important than your right to speech.

This is to assume you have the pay to cut!

I am a technical writer and I am physically disabled. At my point in life I work to survive. Technology is my single source of income potential.

Apple's Sales Distortion Field. offer a must-have device without something it clearly should have, only to unveil that feature later as a new Apple perfection. It goes all the way back to copy and paste on the iPhone.

What do you think will drive the market towards that? In my city our bookstores are closing. Many individuals use tablet electronic-readers. Will it be the electronic books, or the demise of bookstores that drives a publishing industry revolution?

I think this is the most pressing point of the entire article: "As long as Facebook and other social-media platforms make money by increasing engagement without much regard to the content they algorithmically amplify, it doesn’t matter whether every last employee is an avowed liberal."

It appears to just be a system error and not anything of actual malice.