More nails in the coffins of privacy (trust in Google) and free speech.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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I fully expect Google to comply. Thankfully, the only service of theirs that I use is Youtube.
If a civil war happens, I think a side effect is that Google's domination over video platforms would be over. People would end up flocking towards the ones that aren't in service to the Regime.
YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.
No knowledge would be lost. Books exist, other video platforms exist too. Fuck YT, fuck Google, hope they die soon.
At this point, the platform has started to morph into a shitty TikTok copy and I hate it so much…ruined a good thing they had.
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Save everything you want to keep
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Also Microsoft, Apple, Meta all for collection complying with the regime. It'll be funny if it's what brings MySpace back.
I’m more worried about people email, search, and location history being used against them.
There is no reason to honor these warrantless requests. The Bush Administration sent National Security Letters to them, demanding all this information without a warrant and threatening massive penalties if they told anyone. They had no legal basis to do such a thing, the constitution demands they get a warrant from a judge as laid out in the 4th amendment and calls anything in violation of the constitution to be illegal and unenforceable.
But the rot has been spreading for a half a century, the immune system of the Republic is haywire, we have autoimmune conditions, the immune system attacks healthy parts of the body.
America isn't a country of laws anymore. The supreme court rubber stamps anything the administration wants to do, and the administration "declines requests from the judiciary". You've got administration officials that don't know what Habeas Corpus means, suspending Habeas Corpus. You've got a military openly/brazenly committing war crimes on the international scene (blowing up unverified "narco boats"/civilians). You've got a paramilitary gestapo-like force quite literally shooting citizens in the streets, your own government aiming to terrorize its people -- which's the whole point of the violent Ice operations targeting blue states.
But yeah, sure, Google and the big tech bros who have been supporting Trump's actions throughout all of this will totally draw the line at disclosing data.
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I fully expect Google to give in anyway. The rule of law doesn't count for much anymore.
Oh yeah for sure, they have been for some time well before this administration as I understand it.
Facebook is even worse I believe. They allow the police and agents virtually unlimited reach into our lives without warrants. They don't even charge the government to comply with their demands. ATT used to charge the government a lot of money for wiretaps and the like, and made them get warrants. Facebook they just have to ask and they bend over backwards for them.
Maybe facebook and google are guilty on other fronts which makes them susceptible to betraying our freedoms here. Which is why you don't allow such consolidation in the first place but too late now our courts are captured as well as the regulators and they won't break up the trusts, not without a new muscular populist government on a full fledged campaign.
Jeffery Epstein had a gmail account. The redacted emails are in his gmail account. Google should be forced to publish everything fucking now!
The creds were published on Reddit, and the feds evidently didn’t bother to activate 2FA
What a Democratic energy
Nazi Barbie, I will save you some work, here I say: tRump belongs to jail, he is full of shit and covered in shit. PEDOPHILE ASSHOLE.
DHS can eat a US defense budget sized bag of dicks
The folks up at Whipple here in Minneapolis have been chucking dildoes at ICE and local law enforcement. Helps that one of the major spots for local resistance is a sex toy store, and they've got a lot of "expired" dildoes around.
(If you see reports of "objects" thrown at fascists, it's not chunks of ice anymore, lol.)
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And folks, if you haven’t de-googled yourself by now, well it’s past time.
Degoogle dereddit
Waylp that sucks for me. I knew about it and was lazy.
The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.
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Degoog'd already. Enjoy my ancient Papa Johns orders from 2019, Feddarinos.
WaPo (gift) article: "Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon"
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
apparently subpeona arnt enforcable warrants like an actual court order.
It gives organizations a reason to betray their users/the public and surrender to the administration though.
And Google will fold.
Of course. Google suckles the kings teet. They donated to his inauguration fund and the stupid fucking ballroom... they thought he'd never ask for the invasion of our privacy and they can't wait!
So is Apple as bad? They have done all of that also. But all I hear on their Reddit's is it had to be done they have a responsibility to shareholders.
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google is also kneedeep in using AI for govt and military purpose, also they are platforming ISRAEL to spread propaganda on purpose.
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