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This week, Apple Vision Pro ships less, Garry's Mod cuts Nintendo content, the FCC revives Net Neutrality, and TikTok's time is almost up. http://f5live.tv Opening Powered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com) Nifty Gifties Powered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft) Apple's XR ambitions may be over as shipments cut for Vision Pro (http://plughitz.live/u/3927) When Apple announced its ambitious Vision Pro headset, reactions were mixed, to say the least. Apple envisioned people using the product similarly to an iPhone, wearing these dystopian isolation headsets all day Potential users, on the other hand, saw them as an occasional toy. Because of that disparity, it appears that Apple had ordered too many devices for the demand, and that is being corrected. Piltch Point with Avram Piltch Powered by PureVPN (http://piltchpoint.live/purevpn) Extra Life Powered by Eksa (http://f5live.tv/eksa) Nintendo-based content being removed from Garry's Mod Steam Workshop (http://plughitz.live/u/3928) Garry's Mod, the popular game design workshop available through Steam, has begun removing content containing anything Nintendo-related. This comes following a takedown notice from Nintendo, as confirmed by the Garry's Mod team. The Steam Workshop contains user-made content spanning 2 decades, making this a long and arduous process. News From the Tubes Powered by Malwarebytes (http://f5live.tv/malwarebytes) Net Neutrality is back, and ISPs seem not to know how to feel about it (http://plughitz.live/u/3929) Over the past 2 decades, the topic of Net Neutrality has come up a number of times. In the early 2000s, the US had a time-limited set of rules, known publicly as Net Neutrality. When those expired, early in the existence of PLUGHITZ Live, a long-running debate was reignited: should the internet be regulated and, if so, by whom? The FTC has claimed power, but that was short-lived. The FCC has claimed power, but that has been struck down twice. Now, the FCC has tried once again to claim authority over the Internet, and the chaos that brings has already begun. * DRM Not Included Powered by Amazon Prime (http://f5live.tv/prime) TikTok timer has been started - nine months to sell or shut down (http://plughitz.live/u/3930) In the past two weeks, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate passed a bill with a timer for TikTok, and President Biden signed it into law. This law sets a timer of 9 months for ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social network to a Western company or face an outright ban in the US. If it feels like you're living in a time warp, it's because you sort of are. We've been here before, but this time it looks as if the result will be different. Closing Powered by Tech Podcast Network (http://www.techpodcasts.com/)