• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    this is simply them picking their battles.

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

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

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      2 hours ago

      To directly answer the question: within the last 3 or 6 months (I’m not sure precisely), they banned multiple youtubers that were placing ads to work for Russian Alabuga and it’s drone production. It’s an example of using their weight, in this case even something good.

      On the other hand, I mostly actually agree with you. While I do think that they are picking their battles, I also think which battles they go into is usually not in your or mine interests. Instead, the battles are frequently in the interests of the richest google investors (think 10M+) and the US government, as of late. The Alabuga case above is a good and noteworthy exception.

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        5 hours ago

        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”

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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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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        5 hours ago

        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.