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.
Both are invalid options if we want representatives that represent us.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better. Democrats in America suck, yes, like Labor in Australia sucks. I’m still absolutely making my vote count away from the conservatives.
Look, I liked their policies too, they got a lot of money put twoards green energy.
But a party that can’t do what is required to stay in power will get voted out due to voter apathy.
The thing they need to do to stay in power is to put more money in the hands of the people, who have less money every year.
We have reached a point where the only way to do that is to redistribute the wealth in some way, and no party wants to upset their rich doners, so we are stuck in this cycle of voting out the incumbent until that happens.
One party takes money away from you while the other takes away your money.