You might be hearing the coil/capacitor whine when the CPU/GPU has a surge of activity and suddenly pulls more power.
Back in the day, on some computers, you could hear when someone was dragging a window across the screen. The larger the area being repainted, the louder the noise.
I can still hear a CRT line scan (625×25=15625Hz for PAL)... but used to hear up to 21KHz, now I'm down to 17KHz. Which according to my otorhinolaryngologist means "perfect hearing"... and he's unable to do anything about the super-high pitch tinnitus, around an octave higher, that doesn't let me sleep at night.
Not necessarily expecting any legislation; it might be the simple inequality of you having an instance, while they have a bunch of datacenters.
What's 1TB/s more or less, a rounding error?
Big names scrape the whole web all the time; best case scenario, they'll have an optimized scraper for federated networks; worst case, they'll scrape as they would any other website and not even notice the difference.
From a copyright point of view... the rights to each piece of content are of each owner... but each owner is sharing that content with an instance, with the intent of it getting re-shared to further instances.
In a strict sense, most instances are in breach of copyright law: they don't require users to agree to an EULA specifying how the content will be used, they don't require federated instances to agree to the same terms, they don't make end users agree to the terms of other instances, and generally allow users to submit someone else's content (see: memes) without the owner's authorization, then share and re-share it across the federated network. A fully "copyright compliant" protocol, would need to have these things baked into it from the beginning... which would make joining the federated network a royal PITA.
With the current approach of "like, chill bro"... anyone can set up an instance, federate with whatever target or federated-of-a-target one, and save all the data without any consequences. The fact of receiving federated data, carries an implicit consent to process that data, and definitely does nothing to prevent random processing.
Scraping the web endpoint of an instance, carries the rules set by the EULA of that endpoint... which tend to be none, or in the best case, are that of the least restrictive instance offering that federated data.
All of that, before scrapers simply ignoring any requirements.
As usual, the unresolved underlying issue is, how to get funding for FLOSS projects. Entitled cheapskates are nothing new; a generic solution to the issue, would be something new.
What seems to be lost on most, is that money has been coming "out of thin air" for close to a century already. The problem is that every time less money gets destroyed than created, it dilutes the worth of the total... and people who still think in terms of gold nuggets, are completely unprepared to propose anything that would make sense.
That's going to be a "he said, she said" case. Chances are, since she was an activist in the US, that she might've been labeled as an "instigator" in whatever ID database they are using.
You can learn about manipulation techniques so you can spot some sooner... but ultimately it's up to you to make a decision, and chances are you'll either over-react, or under-react. It's very hard to not make any mistakes, or spot the ones who spend their whole life learning how to manipulate others.
Not really an option, when the data is being used for billing purposes (which phone, used what services, and when).
The US has no laws forcing data retention like the EU, but it would take something like anonymous micro transactions in order to have a working billing system, without collecting the data (and it being available to law enforcement).
By the time they're about to go belly up, companies no longer have the resources to ensure they comb through the code to remove the parts licensed from 3rd parties, and the liquidators see all assets as something to sell in order to cover whatever loans the company got.
In an ideal world, consumers would never buy a non-open sourced car, or phone, or IoT device.
In the real world, regulators need to force companies to give consumers at least some basic way to control the products they buy.
The EU at its top level creates "Directives", which member states then are bound to transpose into their national Civil Law systems. Judges can interprete that law in different ways, none of which creates a precedent. Only a country's Supreme Court decision creates a precedent for that country, but even then it can be recurred up to the EU Tribunal, which has the last saying.
It may not be just the Kremlin. I've had several cases where I wrote about something in a Telegram chat, stuff I had never talked about before, and in a matter of seconds started seeing related ads on Facebook.
Alternatively, it could be the keyboard leaking all text, or I could have some other spyware, but I've only had that happen to me between Telegram and Facebook.
Then again, Telegram group chats are unencrypted, and personal chats are unencrypted by default.
On the bright sight, he also promised Saudi Arabia to build a Hyperloop, also for The Line city in Neom, that's turning out to be a great way to syphon SA's oil sales state fund.
But seriously, a Hyperloop would work best on Mars, where the pressure differential would be minimal, while a tube would keep the dust out. Elon's master plan is still to build a Mars colony with indentured servants under threat of no air. On the way, he's scamming whoever it takes, and getting any investment or benefit he can land.
I've recently got suckered into a group that turned out to consider calling people "narcissistic" is an "ableist slur... because narcissism is a disability".
EM is still kind of a real life Tony Stark, the character is not exactly an altruistic philanthropist either.
You might be hearing the coil/capacitor whine when the CPU/GPU has a surge of activity and suddenly pulls more power.
Back in the day, on some computers, you could hear when someone was dragging a window across the screen. The larger the area being repainted, the louder the noise.