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Oh no, vulnerable 🥺 they need DEI? They need to be a protected class? 🥺
Surveillance is suddenly wrong when it's the peasants surveiling wannabe samurai? 🥺
Vulnerable to Fascism?
~~Vulnerable~~ Susceptible
Well, I'm sure they wouldn't give encryption keys away.
Oh? Are we giving them privacy?
if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear
Yeah, maybe it would be in our interests to make all government communications public access. If it isn't a matter happening outside our borders, have it open. Maybe a classification for certain discussions that requires they be released in a timely manner, and when reviewed by a 3rd party if any information is attempted to be hidden they are immediately removed from their position and an investigation starts as to whether the offense should be criminal.
The timely manner would have to be monitored as in "we are going to performing a drug raid" they get a warrant that allocates them 2 days to have discussions pertaining to that topic, organize and execute it. Then release all communications immediately following. If they don't believe they can perform it in that time they need to submit it in their warrant request as to the reason why, time period, and date the information will be made public.
If we wrote strict laws on it, the judges would be held accountable for giving out warrants brazenly, and the executive branch would be kept in check by such
Maybe we should consider some sort of informational freedom act.
I think they're less "vulnerable" and more "fragile"
"Afraid of any sort of accountability"
Federated solutions which can't be stopped, self hosted, and available via Fdroid.
Only real answer.
Until Google revokes publishing privileges for side-loading applications. I think we'll have to go further and get used to making PWAs and regular websites.
side-loading
You mean "installing normally." "Sideloading" is fucking anti-property-rights loaded language.
Good point. Wild how these ghouls have normalized their bullshit language.
Google started using buzzwords of sideloading as to make a boogeyman security issue, to get people to side with them. its just installing, other than thier main store.
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The irony is so rich.
To anyone that had doubts about governments putting restrictions on app stores, here is your proof. The level of power the current situation grants this duopoly is excessive and dangerous.
I thought we had all the proof we needed when Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai were snuggling up to Trump at dinners and the inauguration
google had been snuggling up to conservatives for a while, mostly around mid-pandemic, when they removed restrictions on not banning election denial, and then snowballed into right wing propaganda videos plaguing youtube ever since. they are part of the problem, even moreso than APPLE. and google recently made deals WITH ISRAEL to allow thier propaganda to fester the site.
Google says a group of masked fascists kidnapping children from their beds is a "vulnerable group".
To be fair, they did set expectations when they got rid of the "don't be evil" moto.
google recently fellated trump and the gop. Google's youtube is pretty instrumental in drawing in more incel men to voting Rs, by platforming right wingers out of context , like kirk,shapiro, fox, ,,,ETC.
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aaand that's why we need to be able to install apps without their vetting.
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If you ever want to know why capitalism turns into fascism, look into how many companies willingly and knowingly did business with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
IBM made computers to help the Holocaust, because the Nazis could pay for the service of the machines to be built.
Google is just a modern IBM.
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Was ever any doubt who corporate America would side with?
"Why dont you stupid Americans organize or something?"
They won't let us. We're trying.
The agents who implement state violence are not a group. They're agents of the state.
And now Google is directly collaborating with an oppressive autocratic regime.
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Nope. Our tax dollars pay for their existence. They're not a vulnerable group, they're our employees.
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For the rest of my life I will never forget that Apple and Google went out of their way to defend and protect the Nazi SS of our time.
Absolutely fucking evil and unforgivable.
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The moment any real alternative to Apple and the iPhone is viable I will go all in. Fuck them both, please Linux phones come to save us, lol.
If Linux phones become viable, I'm willing to pay half the salary of the engineer who develops the Linux equivalent of Android Auto and Apple Carplay. As long as they live and work in a really cheap country lol
Google Calls Gestapo Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes Gestapo-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The 1 million dollar question: Would I be able to side load it with the new Google developer registration rules?
~~Don’t~~ be evil.
“Vulnerable” go fuck yourself with a white-hot steel dildo.
Fucking Gestapo
Vulnerable my aunts fanny. They aggressively terrorize everywhere they go. Go everywhere armed to the teeth and are not in any way shape or form threatened with anything or anyone that could harm them sufficiently to put them into a threatened category. This is just google telling us whose side they are on
Why does it have to be an app? Why can't it be just a webpage?
Apps have more permissions than webpages in general
- Better long-term storage
- Better notifications when closed or not focused
- Ability to make noise (I think)
- Ability to run background services
- Ability to run offline or on a weak signal without fighting the browser to make it cache you
Like PWAs exist but apps are supported better in general. And although a web app may work fine for reporting in general, if you want to alert people (I'm not sure if these apps are meant to act like a parallel reverse 911 system) apps do better
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