Ah yes... the guys with masks, guns, the backing of the president, and virtually unlimited federal government resources are a "vulnerable group"

The agents who implement state violence are not a group. They're agents of the state.

And now Google is directly collaborating with an oppressive autocratic regime.

For the rest of my life I will never forget that Apple and Google went out of their way to defend and protect the Nazi SS of our time.

Absolutely fucking evil and unforgivable.

This is exactly why sideloading is very very important.

Vulnerable my aunts fanny. They aggressively terrorize everywhere they go. Go everywhere armed to the teeth and are not in any way shape or form threatened with anything or anyone that could harm them sufficiently to put them into a threatened category. This is just google telling us whose side they are on

Good puppy dogs doing Dear Leader's bidding. History will remember!

Isn't ICE one of the biggest budget of the US now? How is that vulnerable?

Do we know yet that what ICE is doing even legal? (kidnapping, detaining, etc) I haven't followed closely enough to be sure of that. Does the actual police just sit by and watch?

They're totally vulnerable! Just aim for the head!

Someone recommended Kagi in another thread yesterday and that night I finally became 100% google free. Search was the last big hurdle. I was literally the biggest google fanboy. I had google home devices, google wifi, I wanted all their devices, had all their services, everything was set up and integrated. De-googling was fucking hard but I did it and I'm super proud and I've learned so much about how tech works setting up my replacement services and devices. Fuck you Google.

Ew

Do not let Google escape this, ever. Cancel all payments to them. YouTube Premium, YouTube subscriptions, etc.

I cannot say how much I Wish this would be the onion..

Calling masked, armed, armored thugs and terrorists with a disregard for the law a "vulnerable group" is a bit thick, isn't it?

I wonder why this happened.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/business/googles-sundar-pichai-thanks-trump-after-antitrust-resolution-in-online-search-case-glad-its-over/

aaand that's why we need to be able to install apps without their vetting.

Any web based alternatives? App stores aren’t needed here and it’s a lot harder to stop a website.

The irony is so rich.

To anyone that had doubts about governments putting restrictions on app stores, here is your proof. The level of power the current situation grants this duopoly is excessive and dangerous.

So this could get much more serious if they start clamping down on the comm tools we take for granted. Between this and the incoming sideloading block - all of a sudden the most paranoid fears of Stallman's don't seem nearly as far fetched.

Oh no, vulnerable 🥺 they need DEI? They need to be a protected class? 🥺

Surveillance is suddenly wrong when it's the peasants surveiling wannabe samurai? 🥺