If they have admitted to do this then it's reasonable that they have done other vile things with these super sensitive informations. Don't ask for proof, ask yourself.
Just go outside. Hangout with people. Listen to people's stories. Don't hunt for the purpose of life. You will find it eventually. Also do what you like, not what other people suggests.
In a sense I agree with you, there is definitely stealing involved. At the same time I offer you a different POV.
Imagine you are a parent of a meritorious child, above average student you may say. You know that your child will grow more if he gets access to the books of the nearby library. But you can't get the books because the library is controlled by elites and denying access (or asking higher price) to you because you are a peasant. What will you do to solve the issue minimizing the damage?
If people put to a back in the wall situation thousands pages of moral teachings becomes mute.
Defense likes him that is enough I think. They understand Musk's value. I also think that he is having a parallel with Tony Stark persona as a visionary businessman who goes against establishment to achieve his goals.
I didn't know much about BYD till the end of the last year. Looked around for more information and found this great video[0]. It's a fascinating story actually.
So in west clean energy push is actually a moral obligation for reducing the effects of climate change. Whereas for China it is the main way for future growth, to become less dependent on oil supply chain which it does not control. Also they know that they can't compete in ICE vehicles with the established companies. So they started working on EV long before Elon Musk popularized EV in West.
The subsidized whole EV industry. As a result hundreds of EV companies were created seeing the opportunities. As a result nationwide EV infrastructure was built. Five years ago China did the most unconventional thing. They invited Tesla to build the factories and at a same time removed most subsidies given to local EV companies. So Tesla and local companies were having same equal footing.
It resulted in a pure form of free market competition. It became a bloodbath, a king of the hill type survival game where Tesla sat at top of the hill. As a result of competition innovation, optimization happened. Most of the local EV companies died. Remaining became almost the same level as Tesla and BYD became the new king of the hill (at least in China).
The unconventional decision by China may look foreign to western audience but it actually resonates to us who are raised by Asian families. So if you are a child in an asian households parents most of the time talks about a 'kid next door' who is good at study. The parents frequently tells their child to become as good or better than the 'kid next door',saying that we will give you as good environment within our reach to achieve it. It gives an implicit pressure on the child to become better. Obviously not all become as good as the kid next door but some prevails.
In the Chinese EV market case Tesla was that 'kid next door'.
Edit: Sorry wrong video. Trying to find the video.
For fentanyl crisis you should look at your own country to stop the demand and prosecute the people who have enabled it with prescribed opioids instead sheltering them and pointing fingers to others. Today it's China tomorrow it will be India or a poor country from Africa who can make those drugs cheaply as long there is ever increasing demand.
Case in point if slackers were found guilty in China (or any country of Asia) destroying millions of lives using prescription drugs he would have been shamed, his company would have been desolved and executed immediately instead of wasting years of time in court debating on the technicality of the issue in the name of giving proper justice.
Compare it with Microsoft's copilot branding. It's simple, both casual and business people can understand what it does. Also appending it to other services like github or office adds more value to them.
That's how chrome got their market share from firefox and internet explore shoving prompts across all google based services: search, gmail maps etc. Using strong dominance of other domain to gain foothold on another domain and later dominate over it. Sound familiar?
Hiding title bar and tab bar were confugurable before. When you installed tree style tab it automatically made the tab bar hidden at that time. It was the most customizable dev browser.
Then they rewrote the the UI engine replacing XUL and made Firefox a more 'user friendly browser' copying all UI features of chrome sacrificing the customization options.
I am a heretic now who is running Windows 10 with WSL2 and edge as primary browser due the points you mentioned.
They won't. They already have given both Apple and Google pass when chrome was launched or when smartphones took of. Mozilla sees Microsoft as devil's incarnation while Google and Apple are the ally in their holy war.
I am saying this as a developer who was using Firefox since firebug v0.8 era.
Well anybody will get wrong assumption on FB if he doesn't see the impact FB is having outside USA, especially in developing countries. it's the only game in town, a complete social package. Tiktok is another but it competes in one specific side.
Then surely millions people in east asian countries like Japan or Korea sitting at top of highest life expectency table having drinking rooted in their culture are anamoly.