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No, this is intentional, the ultimate goal is a censored internet a la China. This was just the easiest gateway to doing that.
They are coming for VPNs next.
This. The tech giants are trying to 'solidify' the current structure of the internet and gatekeep its information. We're going from archival libraries to curated and policed propaganda. Google seems to be the key piece of the upcoming change with the most broad general access to user data through the cell phone.
It's not just them. There's like a council of 4 or 5 but Google is the best placed. Kind of a 'community leader'
The normie gonna keep saying how stupid the law markers are as he is being cooked like an idiot
tbf it's probably both corruption and incompetence, not just one or the other
Never attribute to incompetence that which can also be attributed to malice.