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Google pulls YouTube from Amazon devices, escalating spat
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| 5 Dec 2017
| Jeffrey Dastin
Posted on 12/06/2017 3:54:13 AM PST by csvset
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To: cgbg
Trump is the only President who has a chance to reign in these monstersCongress and both parties are bought and paid for already.
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perhaps a good job for his daughter and son in law would be to foster start ups of competing conservative companies as well as trust breaking these utilities
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posted on
12/06/2017 4:50:36 AM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
To: rlmorel
I forgot the part where they call each other whores.
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posted on
12/06/2017 4:59:37 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
To: PAR35
![](https://s17.postimg.org/uptea1kvz/F3_D5_D763-7_CAB-4_C33-_B80_F-42_B3_D274_BDE6.jpg)
Google vs Amazon,
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:16:05 AM PST
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: RegulatorCountry
But how do I watch the Warriors in Sacramento?
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:36:48 AM PST
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: csvset
Google is Evil. One thing that sticks out at me is ‘NEST (our sister company)...’ - I have been wanting for a while to see ALL of the companies that Google owns - and then choose to NOT use them/buy them/stay away from them. Google is constantly extending its tentacles across the globe with monitoring and scraping all kinds of Internet access and now much more so with their Voice and other Internet-Of-Things products. All to capture what we do/say/like/feel/view/want.
Someone needs to comprise the list and broadcast it far and wide - “This is how many places Google can gather information about you with their products”
To: time4good
Tenticles, exactly. Theyre Borg like, working hand in hand with the Swamp. The Swamp using spyware on citizens. Mad Maxine Waters told the truth.
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:02:19 AM PST
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csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: usconservative
"Exactly how are Google's actions legal? Customers purchase devices with capabilities, in this case they purchased Fire TV devices that had Google capabilities on them."
"Google turns off/removes that capability - how are these customers not financially harmed, and how is this not class-action lawsuit worthy?"
The people that bought Amazon Fire TV Sticks bought their sticks from Amazon, not Google/Youtube. Google had nothing to do with those sales. You seem to think that Google/Youtube should be required to provide its content to anyone and everyone that wants it. That's not the way things work in a free country.
Around here people and companies are free to do business with or not do business with whomever they please as long as they are not discriminating based on certain legally protected categories. I'm pretty sure that "purchaser of Amazon Fire TV Stick" is not a legally protected category.
Do you think that you have the right to force Google to do business with you against their will?
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:06:30 AM PST
by
Garth Tater
(Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
To: csvset
Both Amazon and Google function on policies of “Net neutrality for thee, not me”.
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:55:37 AM PST
by
Wuli
To: caltaxed; Swordmaker; dayglored; LucyT; GregNH; Whenifhow; bitt
caltaxed :" More reason for the DOJ to break up the horrible Google monopoly."
"All your data are belong to us" - signed Googlie/BORG !
Data is the new commercial currency.
Needs to be stated biggly and repeated again :
" More reason for the DOJ to break up the horrible Google monopoly."
To: csvset
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posted on
12/06/2017 7:05:38 AM PST
by
moovova
To: moovova
In a dystopian word, Alexa says, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".
The Borg has our location, our habits, our travel route down. They read all of your e-mails, listen to your calls, capture every click or keystroke.They can dispatch a drone to dispatch us at anytime.
If Google becomes the holder of all knowledge, wont they be tempted to act as the enforcers or at the arbitrators ? Imagine being brought before a Google Tribunal.
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posted on
12/06/2017 7:24:51 AM PST
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: csvset
To: csvset
Devices with browsers can still access Youtube content.
Most users have more than one device. If access to a particular content is denied on one, they probably have alternatives, if they really, really want to watch that new cat video.
Google does seem to be shooting itself in the foot with this silliness. It reminds me of my cable company occasionally fighting with local TV stations or some networks and blocking their programming for a while. We know they will eventually settle and we know we will see a cable bill increase in the near future.
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posted on
12/06/2017 7:47:46 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: cgbg
All companies (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple) should be banned from horizontal and vertical integrationno services provided (software) if you provide hardware.
That is an absolutely terrible idea. Do you know how many companies do that? And how crappily third-party software runs on devices? Especially very technically specific devices? Citrix software running many large companies' Citrix servers. Toyota software running Toyota vehicles. Ford vehicles. Your phone (unless it's a non-Google device running Android). Your router. Your thermostat (unless it's an old mechanical one). Your kid's Speak-N-Spell. Your fitbit. Your Nintendo 64. Your Keurig (if you're an idiot who can't make your own coffee). Your backup battery charger. Your grocery store's pos system. Streetlights.
Almost anything electronic (definitely if it has a digital display) will be vertically integrated. Hardware/software combos are everywhere.
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