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google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle (i.redd.it)
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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Can someone explain the 4D chess going on here? AFAIK this was just tweet diplomacy, the US hasn't passed anything about this. So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they'll take for this?

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

I think something official was actually signed in the last few days. Dumbest timeline.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 5 hours ago

So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they’ll take for this?

Because it's worth getting on trump's "good side", per Ajit Pai's reasoning