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.
No, you’re sending a message to Biden’s critics. We should have swallowed our criticisms, gotten in line, voted blue no matter who? Is that right?
Bullshit.
The person most responsible for Trump is Trump.
The second most responsible person is Biden, and the third is Harris, for running a shit campaign after a shit four years of neoliberal rich-get-richer politics and letting Trump win.
The fucking landslide of voters choosing a second Trump term over a second Biden term has nothing to do with a handful of online leftists yelling “don’t waste your time and energy on Biden because he sucks and is obviously going to lose” and/or “we fucking told you so”.
Frankly, it has everything to do with people being better off under Trump’s first term than under Biden. And if y’all don’t drop the “blame voters for not falling in line” bullshit and give us a real progressive candidate to vote for, y’all are going to give us Vance/Trump Jr 2028, with Donald Trump as House Speaker and shadow President Putin-style.
I cannot read this because just skimming it makes me want to vomit. The claim alone that America was better off under Trump puts you firmly on my shit list