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.
If you think Harris didn’t criticize the Biden white house because Biden forbid her to you are nuts. There is no way he did that because there’s no way he had the power to do that. What she’s worried about retribution from the old senile man? His power was completely and utterly broken. She didn’t do it cuz she thought it would be bad for her campaign, because it was. You can’t criticize your own record and look good doing it. She was part of that White House.
Really? Cause from what I read, if Harris wanted to keep Biden’s support, Biden demanded she toe the line.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/
If you remember, it wasn’t automatic that Harris replaced Biden. The Dems could have and should have run an abbreviated, competitive primary. Instead, Biden put his campaign dollars and his PR team behind Harris and made sure Harris didn’t have to run in a primary. In exchange, Harris ran a campaign promising America she’d continue Biden’s policies, didn’t criticize any of Biden’s past decisions, and didn’t promote any policies of her own.
Only a weak VP would have taken that deal. A strong politician would have told Biden where to shove it. A strong politician would have come out swinging, saying “this is where I disagree, this is where I would have done differently, this is what I would have done better.” That was the only way to win - after four years of incompetence, failure, and economic disaster, if Biden’s VP wanted to win, she had to break with Biden and promise America the change it demanded.
But Harris was weak and afraid to compete on her own. And we paid the price.
Biden too mentally weak and decrepit to be president but somehow at the exact same time welding unfathomable power. That is a story dumb enough to be “reported” by The Hill lol.