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Getting a leg up in life — or just being financially comfortable — is an increasingly difficult solace to attain, blocked by tax breaks for the rich, incessant bills and unaffordable housing.

Congress passed a bipartisan law last year that gave ByteDance six months to sell its controlling stake in TikTok or see the app blocked in the US.

One of the beauties of the internet is that it is self-healing, meaning that information, when blocked, just travels in a new direction.

Could the receiver, Carter asked, order Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park to proceed with an unpopular housing project in Venice that she has blocked?

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh testified in support of the bill, which was ultimately blocked in committee.