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.
The peanuts they throw us that are meant to trick poor people into having kids they later won’t be able to afford is a disgusting trick that a lot of governments are trying right now.
If you researched these policies, you would understand that.
Wanting a candidate to benefit me instead of half assed attempts to get people to breed is a legitimate criticism.