Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Pete Hegseth denying access to photographers at the Pentagon because he thinks their photos were not flattering enough, is the perfect illustration of how people in Trump's orbit thinks the world works.

Sure, we promised no more wars, and sure we started a war with Iran, and sure we made oil prises go through the roof, and sure we committed a war crime by killing 165 school girls, but… the reason voters do not like us is, Pete Hegseth does not look cool enough in the photos snapped by Reuters.

This is the dumbest propaganda attempt from the Trump administration yet:

JD Vance acknowledges unemployment is up, but then claims it is only because — hold on to something for this one — Americans did not want a job in the Biden economy, so they sat in a sofa waiting for Trump, and now that he is in office, everyone registers as looking for work.

Sure JD… sure… 😀

https://youtube.com/shorts/0Z9bcvdldLI?si=iwHU0DHc1edFSh_s