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how does that make it any less hypocritical for Google and others that vacuum up everyones data for free and monetize it to ban or api-restrict others
by soup10 8y ago
how does that make it any less hypocritical for Google and others that vacuum up everyones data for free and monetize it to ban or api-restrict others
- KirinDave 8y agoIt's not even clear that Google is specifically doing that at this point, but ultimately a service like G+ is quite expensive to run. It's a bit weird to suggest it's public property because Google has an unrelated product it does make available without direct monetary cost to most of the world.
- soup10 8y agoGoogle and other tech companies shouldn't be banning services that do productive things with their data, especially not when that data was cheaply collected or volunteered to them. bandwidth is not expensive. Not saying that's what happened here, though it very likely could be.
- KirinDave 8y agoI don't understand why you think a problem that was only there briefly and went away in less than an hour is proof positive of a positive policy action.