• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    Guaranteed is. This is not new to Google, they have disputed territories, disputed names, they have gone through this before. This is just Americans seeing it for the first time. Google probably has an admin page that let’s them set it up without ever needing an engineer anymore. If you’re within this polygon you see this line, else you see the line over there. The alternative is they get sued/shut down in that country/ etc. While I have no love for Google, this is simply them picking their battles.

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      this is simply them picking their battles.

      name a battle they picked to fight for the benefit of the common man in the last :

      • 1 month
      • 3 months
      • 6 months
      • 1 Year

      If they’re picking battles, they must have done something worthwhile, right?

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          Yeah, reserving your resources for moments that actually matter instead of wasting them for every petty issue.

          But I don’t think they are reserving anything for any moment, worthwhile or not. So they aren’t “picking their battles” they are “doing jack shit”

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        No, that’s not what I said, I said they’re picking their battles, and I didn’t offer any reason or justification for why. You can do that if you choose, but I’m not going to go off and do errands to prove a point I wasn’t making.

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          I said they’re picking their battles, and I didn’t offer any reason or justification for why

          OK, and I’m saying they are not picking anything, and just rolling over. There is no fucking battle that they are fighting, so they aren’t picking any battles.

    • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.au
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      I remember Google doing it with the Gulf of Mexico, so they shouldn’t be too surprised it wasn’t that long ago.