Unless the entity they're taking from can defend themselves in court. Just ask Copilot to generate an image in the style of AI hater Tim Burton and you'll get a ToS wrong-think violation. So really it is just for taking from small fries.

Facilitation payments, which as near as I can tell are line jumping bribes for things like approval processes, are specifically carved out as an exception to the US anti-bribery laws.

Proof of work to post content. This is the part where some one says cell phone batteries can't handle it. But I doubt much quality content has ever been directly posted from a mobile device in the first place so I don't think it is much of a problem.

How will PoW solve this ? Clickfarms in Asia already use entire hangars of mobile phones to fake traffic.

I can't comment on Red Alert 2 in particular, but many early network multiplayer games predate widespread adoption of the internet so TCP/IP wasn't an option. Early online gaming services like Kali were almost a product built around a TCP/IP wrapper for IPX that allowed internet multiplayer on a platform it wasn't initially designed for. But it wasn't long before most people probably didn't even have the IPX protocol installed anymore.

They don't need to do any of that. They'll just use AI analysis combined with mass surveillance to identify and crush any organized dissent before it can form into anything close to a threat. A very small group of goons is all that is required.

Naw, the message there would be they need to shove it in the users face more aggressive and turn it on automatically with updates.

Telemetry mainly is used to identify the applications users have fled to and still use and target them from the next round of crapping things up.