Jon ClausenJan 10
The Verge
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.

The Verge
Jan 9 at 9:30pmBuffer
Show threadJamie JonesJan 9
@verge Yeah I'm installing GrapheneOS on my pixel and never touching Google's shit again. The families of these techbros will be ashamed in a few decades when history books on fascism have their portraits printed a couple pages after Hitler's enablers. Fuck these hideous cowards. We need a tech revolution.
Show threadChristophe B. Jan 10
@J_Jonesjj GrapheneOS only runs on Google's shit so you need to give money to Google to use GrapheneOS
Show threadJamie JonesJan 10
@bladecoder Yeah I've already had this one for over a year and it's one of the last models that doesn't have the AI chip. I'm gonna hope it lasts a few years with a different OS.
Show threadDaniel BrotherstonJan 9
@verge they’re acting the same way every other wealthy person acts. It’s the same reason Epstein and his associates were never punished.
Show threadBrian TatoskyJan 9
@verge Thanks for calling it out.
Show threadkikebenllochJan 9
@verge An understatement but yeah.
Show threadKevin RussellJan 9

@verge

In a miasma of oatmeal pandering and bullshit from newspapers, it is gratifying that several publications have not succumbed to kneeling to the tech Bros and our other arrogant misleaders.

Stories like the one above are actually typical, unlike the skidmarks in the dailies.

Show threadJones MurphyJan 10
@verge they're not cowards. They are suicidal bigots. Huge difference. They are doing horrible things they understand endanger their own lives, for bigotry & hatred.
Show threadLeeJan 10
@verge Well done!
Show threadAxomamma, Antifa from birthJan 10
@verge cowards? They're members of a club, and you're not in it.
Show threadAndrewHSJan 10
@verge collaborators
Show threadDebbie DetmerJan 10
@verge Maybe they really like what X offers? Open access porn etc.
Show threadmahadevankJan 10

@verge we need to switch modes and consider all politicians and businessmen guilty of pedophilia unless they actively oppose such activitiess and take steps to counter them.

No comment on the Epstein files? Pedophile

Not opposing ICE? Pedophile

Not removing X? Pedophile

Guilty unless proven innocent

Show threadHTPC NZJan 10
@verge yet lot of "very smart" people romanticises both as if it is the early 80s or early 00s respectively.
Show threadPatrick H. LaukeJan 10
@verge shorter take: capitalism has no morals. you're welcome.
Show threadJonathan GulbrandsenJan 10
@verge @marcoarment a smarter and less level 1 thinking take: https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words
‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words

Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.

Daring Fireball
Show threadAdventureTenseJan 10
@verge Poor Tim, he's just trying to do a staged retirement without Elon doing a hostile takeover of Apple and rename it Xpple.
Show threadMarcus Rohrmoser 🌻Jan 11
Hi @verge,
the store 'rules' were ever #arbitrary and applied as fits the store owner's #business.
Show threadBill GraefeJan 15

@verge

Elizabeth is pure genius.

Show threadmartin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎Jan 15
@verge So what else is new?