This is off the wall wild. I generally defend a lot of Google's behaviors especially around the web & what I see as commitment to platform & standards. This jus

This is off the wall wild. I generally defend a lot of Google's behaviors especially around the web & what I see as commitment to platform & standards. This just does so much to savage my feelings for the company. I didn't think my first post on the topic here was that out of line, that crazy, but I used stronger words & got flagged, and boy does this get at me in an awful way. It feels like such a terrible indicator of the state of the world. The hackerly spirit is under attack once more in the War Against General Purpose Computing & here (as elsewhere with the Safety net effort) Google is one of the leading companies doing the dirtiest to the world, to anyone else's chances or ability to understand & affect change. They are emblematic Black Iron Prison keepers, and it so sad to see from a company that I believe often is so contributive & so helps us to advance & create robust standards. I was excited for innovation & change to come to text messaging, to not need to have everyone figure out how else to text everyone else each time we want to interact. But if Google's going for a trifecta of shooting themselves, their users and RCS down like this, all with this one bullet, it's back to there being no sensible clear options. And what's with the opening line carrying so much water for Google? > Google is cracking down on rooted Android devices, Cracking down? Excuse you? You crack down on offenders. People advancing how they use their devices beyond what's provided aren't a pest. The vanguard of human intent, our capacity to improve ourselves, ought be cherishes and celebrated, especially on a site with the word hacker in the title.