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Brooke Binkowski@brooklynmarie.bsky.social |
Look at these fucking assholes
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JR Smith 🦀
@abysmallytall.bsky.social
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Said this elsewhere, but: "local tech giant demonstrates a real understanding of what will gain them sympathy by <checks notes>... reminding the public about the outsized power they hold over them?"
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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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I suspect state attorneys general could find all manner of real* infractions and crimes at Google if the will to look was there. *i.e. not partisan GOP fake allegations
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Mael Brigde (aka Casey)
@maelbrigde.bsky.social
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Facebook has been blocking news in Canada for ages now. Because giant corporations run the world, right?
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melomys
@melomys.bsky.social
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There are no good tech companies or tech CEOs. Anyone who thinks there are is delusional and/or willfully ignorant. A reminder: Google’s original slogan was Don’t Be Evil. 🙄
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Susanne Allen
@evensong.bsky.social
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Looks like they didn’t just drop “Don’t be evil” they changed it to “Be evil as often as possible”.
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beloved character on brand new adventure
@guntoucher.bsky.social
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download firefox while you still can lol
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Melody E. McIntyre
@melodyemcintyre.bsky.social
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Facebook does this for Canada. Google thread to but hasn't so far.
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Victoria De Capua
@victoriadecapua.bsky.social
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They tried this with Canada but we're a much lower cost than California, which probably has higher, more reasonable demands.
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Clavain
@nclavain.bsky.social
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Canada welcomes California to the Revolution...
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Rufus
@te-kanawa.bsky.social
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Zuck blocking it as well does not surprise me. Pay up suckas
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@retiredrph.bsky.social
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Seems to be news to many, that they could....wait for it...actually do their own searching instead of relying on someone else. Bonus: fewer ads and popups!
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Om
@om64.bsky.social
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Almost all of media is owned by like 5 people, I'd be protesting too if just clicking a link accidentally put money directly into Rupert Murdochs wallet. Absolutely fuck that.
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DTwyman
@dtwyman.bsky.social
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Statement from the Media Guild of the West, on Google's BS.
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Cyn ✨
@obicynkenobi.bsky.social
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This shit should be illegal
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Carolyn
@carolynp.bsky.social
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Alex Roberts
@flaxless.bsky.social
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Don't get me wrong Google are fucking awful, but if news organisations want to charge a link tax, I don't think anyone should be forced to make those links. We have something similar in Australia and it only benifits Murdoch and the like. Independent news orgs are getting the shaft.
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Jennifer Winch
@jlwinch1.bsky.social
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Google is just begging to be forcibly broken up.
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Dread Pirate Zed
@dreadpiratezed.bsky.social
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Yes, Google is rich and evil, but this really seems like a pretty straightforward 1st Amendment "you can't compel speech" situation, no? CA: you have to pay news sites if you show their links in your search results Google: OK, we won't show them Everybody else: YOU CAN'T DO THAT! Yes, they can.
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Arash Mohebbi
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
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They really need to be broken up.
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ishyamo
@ishyamo.bsky.social
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Another reason to use DuckDuckGo instead.
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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]
@themckenziest.gay
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Holy fucking shit - once again zero surprise and all outrage
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Orlean Cooper
@orleancooper.bsky.social
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These assholes aren't even effectively punishing California, they're punishing everyone.
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kain
@teamclerks.net
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Look, we aren’t always making the best laws in California, but to call us assholes over this ridiculous law seems petty.
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Michele
@ibumichele.bsky.social
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This is what Germany did
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David Slack
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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AlimentaryMagic
@elenaperez.bsky.social
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Big Tech making another strong, “We don’t need regulation; we can oversee that ourselves” argument </sarcasm>
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Portland Man
@erikgunderson.bsky.social
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IOETRW the motto was "Don't be evil."
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tpshea
@tpshea.bsky.social
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Welcome to Canada, where Meta has been fucking shit up for a year.
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Unbound
@unbound55.bsky.social
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And this would be one of the reasons why they removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct years ago...
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield
@jaykaydee.bsky.social
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Petty little thugs
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Cathy Gellis
@cathygellis.bsky.social
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Good for Google on this. Link taxes violate the First Amendment and HURT (not help) independent journalism. Buffy Wicks just keeps sticking her fingers in her ears while saying la la la and pushing harmful and unconstitutional legislation despite this. Props to anyone standing against her.
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Socyclist 🚴
@socyclist.bsky.social
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Use DuckDuckGo
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Vailalamadness
@vailalamadness.bsky.social
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“We don’t take these decisions lightly and want to be transparent with California publishers, lawmakers and our users. To avoid an outcome where all parties lose and the California news industry is left worse off, we urge lawmakers to take a different approach.” Or Google should just fkn pay.
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Kordo
@kordo.bsky.social
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"Don't be evil" to "openly extorting an entire state out of pique" is a hell of a journey
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Danno - Sigurd
@dannod.bsky.social
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They did it to Canada already.
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the 1st rule of Wife Club
@cpi.bsky.social
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break google's spine. Facebook pulled this shit in Canada. Corporations are tired of pretending they're people, they want the power of nation states.
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Topiary. She/her. Free 🇵🇸❄️❄️❄️🌱 🇨🇦/🇩🇪
@topiary.bsky.social
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So sorry. They did it to all of Canada last year. Support your local news! Subscribe and share what you can. Stay informed. ❤️❤️❤️
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Wendel
@wendelschwab.bsky.social
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They did the same thing with Canadian news links as well, but they rolled over fairly quickly and capitulated to the Canadian government.
www.engadget.com/google-wont-...
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Natanael, Tech janitor
@natanael.bsky.social
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Link tax laws sucks, it's the completely wrong way to try to fund journalism. The incentives are so extremely broken that it leads to precisely this, and it pays the wrong people.
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omg
@omgsrsly.bsky.social
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That's like how we can't share ANY news on Facebook in Canada.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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This is going to get people killed, just so the bootlickers at Google can punish the people making them more money than absolutely anybody else
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Harbinger of Chaos
@harbingerofchaos.bsky.social
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I’ve been eyeing Kagi and have heard good things. Time to pull the trigger. Already switched mail I care about to Proton, Chrome is full of bloatware, I have a 365 sub work pays for, they got rid of domains - suddenly I don’t feel the need to use Google for anything at all.
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Appalbarry
@appalbarry.com
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Facebook and others have been doing this for ages in Canada, for the same reason. You literally can't post a link to a news story on Facebook up here.
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Hope Dixon-Seider
@hopedixonseider.bsky.social
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What twunts!
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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I'm so fucking tired of the greed and predictable awfulness of rich men.
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Zig Zag Wanderer
@zigzagwanderer.bsky.social
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Somewhere along the line they went “ah fuck it, be evil”
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Kris Wernowsky
@kriswernowsky.com
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Levy a bunch of state taxes on them and let em move to Austin with Rogan
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