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.

    • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.netOP
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      12 days ago

      Trump had one year to fuck up the US’s COVID response. And he fucked it up pretty badly, mind you.

      Biden had four years to fix Trump’s shit. He failed.

      We were in a depression. We needed a New Deal. We needed to get help to the people who needed help. What Biden gave us was a “Green New Deal” that gave billions to big greenwashing corporations and nothing to ordinary people; a pathetic attempt at student loan forgiveness; a few hundred dollars in checks that didn’t even cover one month of rent increases, never mind the rent itself.

      Unemployment skyrocketed, inflation boomed, and people got more and more insecure about their jobs and homes and their ability to fucking feed their families. And don’t get me fucking started on the refugee crisis.

      In May 2020 the median price of a house in the US was 275K. In May 2025 it was 427k. The price of a house almost doubled in five years. Which was great for homeowners but horrible for renters and young people.

      (You want to know why so many 20somethings voted Trump? Ask them if they ever expect to own a home. Ask them if they think they’re going to be better off than their parents. Ask them if Biden gave them hope for the future and you’ll get your answer.)

      Meanwhile, Biden pointed at the stock market - which was booming, because the rich were getting richer by driving small businesses out of business - and told America the economy was great and only losers and Republicans thought otherwise.

      Biden isn’t solely responsible for the COVID depression that we are still in. But he is responsible for pretending it didn’t exist and for not doing shit to help Americans out of it. And we’re all paying the price for his failure.