I am all for political correctness and some restraint is needed.
But I also seen people criticizing other people for using their home country’s name Niger or the Spanish word for black as Spanish speakers (in that case even more cynical as the person who was criticised was a PoC from Cuba).
I find it hard to believe that the workers didn’t see this coming…
They’re contractors. They’re not permanent employees. They can, generally, be let go at any time for any reason whatsoever - or no reason at all. It’s crap, but they’re some of the risks of being a contractor. The benefits of higher pay, choose your own hours, choose your own workplace, etc have to be weighed against said risks.
It’s a bit misleading. They’re not private contractors but employees of a different company instead. The union busting in the US is pretty extreme. I just hope these people can put their talents to work in a company that doesn’t have so many issues complying with the rule “don’t be evil”.
Yeah Google is well known for employing “contractors” which is just really a way for them to avoid any of the annoying regulations you have with actual employees, by having them be employed by a third party but really they’re just working for Google full time. Also looks better on the balance sheets.
There have actually been a few cases that have made it through the courts that apply “employee” status based on how the company treats the worker rather than how they’re paid.
Especially in cases where the worker is on long-term assignment somewhere like Google.
I will never pay the richest company in the world to watch YouTube. Then I just don't watch and instead contribute to something new that is distributed and federated.
It’s a lot harder to federate a YouTube competitor because storing all that video costs a lot more than text and links.
I wish they’d just insert the adverts into the videos so we could fast forward them if we wish. Why do we have to be locked into watching the same handful of adverts over and over.
They used to let us skip after 2 seconds and then it went from one advert to two. Now it’s two unskippable adverts. No wonder people want to block them.
Personally, I’m happy to see regulations that hold megacorps to the spirit and intent of those regulations, rather than having a dozen loopholes they can pass through. The lawyers are of course unhappy since they can’t argue in court that they met the absolute minimum letter of the law.
Thank you, this gets to the core of the problem. Exorbitant amounts of money and effort is spent to find where the letter of the law does not match the spirit of the law. Language is messy, so it never completely will. But in cases where the spirit of the law is so obvious I’m happy when it’s enforced instead of letting them off on technicalities.
Should a DMA violation be repeated, fines can reach up to 20 percent of global annual revenue.
That’s over a thousand dollars!
Throughout the past several months, Apple has made a number of changes to comply with bypass the DMA
Fixed that for them
We are confident our plan complies with the law,
It most likely doesn’t.
and estimate more than 99 percent of developers would pay the same or less in fees to Apple under the new business terms we created.
Translation: current fleecing levels will remain
All developers doing business in the EU on the App Store have the opportunity to utilize the capabilities that we have introduced, including the ability to direct app users to the web to complete purchases at a very competitive rate.
You’re still free to pay us for using the cheaper services provided by others.
As we have done routinely, we will continue to listen and engage with the European Commission.”
We’re paying close attention to find out how best to bypass the law without paying the fines
delaying the rollout of Apple Intelligence — the company’s name for a suite of generative AI features that will debut in iOS 18 — and some other features in the EU. “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us to compromise the integrity of our products in ways that risk user privacy and data security,” the company told Bloomberg.
Translation: they won’t let us monetize every tiny bit of data with no compensation or even notice
Fuck Apple. Fuck their walled garden profiteering bullshit. FUCK their blatant lies about it.
I know, I was just being silly for the sake of being silly on that one heh.
Fining Apple tens of billions of dollars is genuinely a great start towards making it not financially viable for them to break the law, so I’m all for it!
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