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Things most certainly changed. Now google has to beg me for it. Come on Google, beg. But maybe your point is that resistance is futile and why even try to fight it just give in and let it happen. I don't know but mama didn't raise no quitter, I don't know about you but to each his own eh.
It's not good enough. Google must DIE <3 ◉‿◉
Waiting for the perfect solution that might never come without doing anything in the meantime accomplishes nothing.
I do plenty.
You still using Gmail? 🧐
I was talking about law making not you specifically.
Just ban Google already 😈
This is the EU slowly doing what it can.
"Kill cancer already"? Ok, for that we need to do testing and advanced chemistry for a long time. This IS how you get rid of it, there is no other way.
False equivalent.
It's much easier to ban big tech companies than you think, it's literally what China has been doing forever.
This is one battle in the long war, my friend. If you want to kill them, these kinds of steps are absolutely essential. You can't just go back in time and snipe Hitler, you have to fight on the beaches, on the fields and in the streets, and you must never surrender.