On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 06:10:53AM +0000, jim bell wrote:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/as-google-is-hands-his-data-to-th...

There needs to be one Empire phone which -appears- to be in opposition to the empire. That's why Apple gets the special marketing treatment ("we so gud bois, Fed's really hate us, $2 two dollah happy ending") - they locked that in with their "we'll hand you all our cloud data" NSA/CIA contract. Google/Android on the other hand just don't care - somewhere between 75 and 90% market share, and Jewgle's got search revenue, some hardware, mapping, etc for more money and lock ins. And the most important one? Google has a -very- close relationship with brownskin weddings, so as everybody knows, when the wedding blows (to the stone age, with a patriotic missile), it is of course because "our democratic values means we 'do no evil' - -this- brown skin wedding was a terrist wedding, see? Don'cha love it when an empire comes together? For every other evil, there's Google...