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"A privacy breach on a scale never before seen": Google's "sentence" for its antitrust conviction is to share all the data it gathered on users with every company that wants it (pluralistic.net)
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Cory Doctorow is rightfully enraged:

This is all downside. If Google complies with the order, it will constitute a privacy breach on a scale never before seen. If they don't comply with the order, it will starve competitors of the one tiny drop of hope that Judge Mehta squeezed out of his pen. It's a catastrophe. An utter, total catastrophe. It has zero redeeming qualities. Hope you like enshittification, folks, because Judge Mehta just handed Google an eternal licence to enshittify the entire fucking internet.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

particularly if they were trying to pressure the Democrats to stop supporting genocide

There were two possibilities with that: 1) it was a fake excuse to nudge people toward Trump. 2) it was an idiot's way of confidently pretending to be morally superior without understanding (or caring to understand) anything since their position specifically would lead to worse genocide. This second category heard but rejected the basic facts of how america's parties work, and they rejected it REPEATEDLY..

So yeah, it's fair to blame them. The situation we have now was partially caused by them and will be further magnified by them in the future.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can empathize with people who had to choose between 1) supporting and empowering politicians of their own party guilty of defending, enabling, and supporting genocide or 2) using the only power they have, their vote, to communicate their disapproval for genocidal members of their own party at the risk to enabling christo-fascists who are absolutely going to defend, enable, and support the same genocide even more blatantly. It's an insane situation - one that the fucking party leadership should have recognized.

What you are saying to these people is "What the fuck is wrong with you? It's SO OBVIOUS! I don't care how much it bothers you, you need to give the fucking war criminals more bullets to slaughter innocent children because, if you don't, even worse war criminals are going to slaughter even more innocent children. How fucking hard is it to just hold your nose and murder innocent children? Now it's your fault that even more children are dead and the fascists are in charge."

So rather than embrace those who just want to stop any innocent children from being murdered you are wasting your time telling people who played this fucked up political game wrong to pound sand and get lost because you played it right.

No. Get over it and work together to fix this shit. You are just dividing the left when it actually has a chance to come together and do something.