A U.S. lawyer in a landmark trial on the effects of social media on minors says Meta and Google-owned YouTube “engineered addiction” in children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/10/tech/trial-meta-youtube-addiction-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #us #socialmedia #meta #youtube #addiction #children #mentalhealth #facebook #instagram #alphabet #google
Chip Butty
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More Than 800 #Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With #ICE and CBP - https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-google-employees-demand-answers-from-executives-about-ice/ "The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month."
More Than 800 #Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With #ICE and CBP - https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-google-employees-demand-answers-from-executives-about-ice/ "The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month."
bhaugen
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"Meanwhile, AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, and Microsoft are providing ICE and Border Patrol with cloud computing, surveillance software, and logistical support that’s central to how they function. This corporate collaboration makes large-scale enforcement possible."
#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #ATT #HomeDepot #Amazon #Microsoft #EthnicCleansing
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"ICE’s latest recruitment ads — built around music and language drawn straight from far-right neo-Nazi memes and aimed at extremists who are most fervent about guns, tactical gear, and vigilantism — are being distributed by and are profiting two companies you probably use all the time: YouTube and Google."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #EthnicCleansing
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
"Meanwhile, AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, and Microsoft are providing ICE and Border Patrol with cloud computing, surveillance software, and logistical support that’s central to how they function. This corporate collaboration makes large-scale enforcement possible."
#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #ATT #HomeDepot #Amazon #Microsoft #EthnicCleansing
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Think again. I grew up in the household of a lawyer who ran for a judge's seat twice. I learned bitter lessons early in life about how absolutely not blind justice is in the US when money is waved under Lady Justice's blindfold.
Follow the money … right to the judge's seat and the courtroom.
#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
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"ICE’s latest recruitment ads — built around music and language drawn straight from far-right neo-Nazi memes and aimed at extremists who are most fervent about guns, tactical gear, and vigilantism — are being distributed by and are profiting two companies you probably use all the time: YouTube and Google."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #EthnicCleansing
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
I am not a steelworker but I grew up in a steel town.
"What's a steel town?"
Exactly. Entire industries disappear, I am not waxing philosophical, I am watching it a second time.
"Why did they say #Google all the time?"
Bon, les gens, visiblement les lunettes de flicage de #Meta/#Rayban n’ont pas rencontré le backlash des #Google Glasses. Donc on va avoir plein de mecs dans les rues qui filment en permanence.
J’ai déjà vu des bricolages DIY pour se barder de guirlandes de LED hors spectre visible qui perturbent les caméras.
Vous sauriez s’il existe des outils plus accessibles / tout faits qui pourraient pourrir les enregistrements de ces lunettes ? Genre un collier ou un badge, qui illumine l’image.
Konrad Förstner 💻🧬🦠
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Google ist auf sehr vielen Webseiten eingebunden (bspw. Fonts, Analytics, Werbung, reCAPTCHA). Sobald dein Browser etwas von Google nachlädt, sieht Google meist: Deine IP, den Zeitpunkt und von welcher Seite der Abruf kam. Wenn du parallel bei Google eingeloggt bist, wird daraus schnell ein klares Profil, auf welchen Seiten zu aktiv bist. 👇
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/google-als-mitleser-warum-so-viele-webseiten-deinen-besuch-verraten/
Google ist auf sehr vielen Webseiten eingebunden (bspw. Fonts, Analytics, Werbung, reCAPTCHA). Sobald dein Browser etwas von Google nachlädt, sieht Google meist: Deine IP, den Zeitpunkt und von welcher Seite der Abruf kam. Wenn du parallel bei Google eingeloggt bist, wird daraus schnell ein klares Profil, auf welchen Seiten zu aktiv bist. 👇
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/google-als-mitleser-warum-so-viele-webseiten-deinen-besuch-verraten/
Claudia
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Something I came to realize years ago when I got to know some of the people working at Twitter, there are still good, principled people working at (at least some of) the Big Tech companies who still believe in the original stated ideals, and pushing for them from within.
Worker solidarity! ✊
#news #USNews #USPol #ICE #workers #WorkersRights #solidarity #google
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ginger_tosser/116036395467833481
In the months leading up to May 1, 2026 let's build a GLOBAL #BOYCOTT. People can begin now, pledge to delete their accounts at the major US tech platforms:
- #Amazon
- #Google
- #Meta
- #Microsoft
- #Apple
Imagine for a minute, what that looks like! The lead-up to that day and the actual day. If hundreds of millions people, globally, were to actually delete their accounts (or at least stop using them to purchase services).
Those CEOS, those boards and stock holders SHOULD FEAR US. They think themselves isolated from their actions.
We should not just talk shit about them, we should end their companies, we should cut their companies to the ground.
With the internet, is such a thing really so far fetched? For fucks sake, we have the internet.
THEY. SHOULD. FEAR. US.
WE. SHOULD. MAKE. THEM. FEAR. US.
Global Boycott. Start now. Build, build, build. #DeleteDay2026 #TheyShouldBeAfraid
Dare to imagine kicking those fuckers in their testicles.
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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Google agrees to $135M settlement over collecting Android users' cellular data without consent, even when apps were closed and location was off. 📱
Users may claim up to $100 each; Google will improve data transfer controls and disclosures, though it denies wrongdoing. ⚖️
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/870056/google-cellular-data-lawsuit-settlement
#TechNews #Google #Android #Privacy #Data #Settlement #Lawsuit #ConsumerRights #Mobile #Surveillance #Transparency #CCPA #BigTech #Rights #US #USA #EU #Europe #Smartphone #Samsung #Pixel #Security
Google agrees to $135M settlement over collecting Android users' cellular data without consent, even when apps were closed and location was off. 📱
Users may claim up to $100 each; Google will improve data transfer controls and disclosures, though it denies wrongdoing. ⚖️
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/tech/870056/google-cellular-data-lawsuit-settlement
#TechNews #Google #Android #Privacy #Data #Settlement #Lawsuit #ConsumerRights #Mobile #Surveillance #Transparency #CCPA #BigTech #Rights #US #USA #EU #Europe #Smartphone #Samsung #Pixel #Security
Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
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@dennyhenke I hereby pledge to delete both my #Microsoft and #Apple accounts by May 1 2026.
My #Meta and #Google accounts are already deleted. Never had an #Amazon account.
O, and not forget: #fuckTrump
Dream with me. No, really. Close your eyes and imagine a day, May 1, 2026.
In the months leading up to May 1 a GLOBAL campaign is organized. On May 1 (or before) people pledge to delete their accounts at the major US tech platforms:
- #Amazon
- #Google
- #Meta
- #Microsoft
- #Apple
Imagine for a minute, what they looks like. The lead-up to that day and the actual day. If hundreds of millions people, globally, were to actually do that.
Imagine for a moment, in the months leading up to such a day, the result on those CEOS, the boards, etc. They think themselves isolated from their actions. We should not just talk shit about them, we should end them. We should cut their companies to the ground.
With the internet, is such a thing really so far fetched? For fucks sake, we have the internet.
THEY. SHOULD. FEAR. US.
WE. SHOULD. MAKE. THEM. FEAR. US.
Global Boycott. Start now. Build, build, build. #DeleteDay2026
Dare to imagine kicking those fuckers in their testicles.
@dennyhenke I hereby pledge to delete both my #Microsoft and #Apple accounts by May 1 2026.
My #Meta and #Google accounts are already deleted. Never had an #Amazon account.
O, and not forget: #fuckTrump
Dream with me. No, really. Close your eyes and imagine a day, May 1, 2026.
In the months leading up to May 1 a GLOBAL campaign is organized. On May 1 (or before) people pledge to delete their accounts at the major US tech platforms:
- #Amazon
- #Google
- #Meta
- #Microsoft
- #Apple
Imagine for a minute, what they looks like. The lead-up to that day and the actual day. If hundreds of millions people, globally, were to actually do that.
Imagine for a moment, in the months leading up to such a day, the result on those CEOS, the boards, etc. They think themselves isolated from their actions. We should not just talk shit about them, we should end them. We should cut their companies to the ground.
With the internet, is such a thing really so far fetched? For fucks sake, we have the internet.
THEY. SHOULD. FEAR. US.
WE. SHOULD. MAKE. THEM. FEAR. US.
Global Boycott. Start now. Build, build, build. #DeleteDay2026
Dare to imagine kicking those fuckers in their testicles.
The #Google Logo hasn’t been loading for me in two days now using a WebKit browser. I emptied the cache and rebooted. It looks like Google doesn’t test with non Chrome browsers anymore. If this is true, its really bad news for the web, as it gets us one step closer to the Internet Explorer vs. Netscape situation.
Librecast
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116034944078221097
- If you're locked in to Amazon with previous media purchases commit to no additional purchases. No more.
- Otherwise, delete your Amazon account. You can get their stuff elsewhere.
- Stop using Google's browser, search, services. Delete your account if possible.
- Stop using Microsoft's services services. Delete your account if possible.
Commit to getting out of these services. Stop using them, stop giving them your money.
#Genocide #BOYCOTT #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #Technology #Tech