Sony is taking heat, rightfully so, and I hope this changes things, but this is a more pervasive problem. Plenty of other companies do the same thing. I hope future rulings change how all companies operate when it comes to digital sales of games, movies, and music. What that looks like, I don’t know. Maybe lower costs of games that you don’t physically own. Maybe the inability to lock people out of games they purchased even if their accounts are banned for whatever (probably AI decided) reason. Probably many other potential options that would not be anti-consumer.
EliteCloneMike
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I cannot believe Google hasn’t been broken up yet. I haven’t used their services in years and block them on my home network. I used to use their search and other services all the time, until 2022 when I saw several news articles come out about them locking people out of the accounts because their AI accused people of being child abusers, but when those people were found innocent, Google refused to return their data or accounts. That is disgraceful behavior for a company. Plus many many other issues. Glad to see that they are killing their brand with AI, meaning they are not driving traffic to other websites anymore, but raising energy costs for those sites. And that now this. Glad to also see that people are moving away from their map system in the latest round of news. AI needs to be regulated. Our data needs to be protected. Privacy (digital and in the real world) should be a basic human right.
Me too. But also isn’t that what they have been doing these past months.
I use Organic Maps and CoMaps mainly. Sometime Kagi Maps and FlockHopper (not sure what I under the hood of that one though). I prefer OSM generally.
Trees bark. 😅
Sound bites.
Great! Hope people more move away from Google Maps. OSM would be even better, but MapQuest is a good step away from the Monopoly of Google.
Edit: Just realized that in Google Maps the acronym for the Great Lakes is no longer “HOMES” but could now be known as “SHAME”.
It should be called renting (or something similar). But then, that would likely mean an expectation of a lower price tag and they wouldn’t want that. Who would rent a game for $80? Even if the rental is a decade or longer. Probably people out there that would and currently do this.
I’m also switching between two books! One is The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe and the other is Educated by Tara Westover.
I hope this has more far reaching effects. These companies pull this kind of nonsense all the time. Right now, they can lock you out of your account without notice or warning or ability to properly appeal. They also often don’t tell you the reason why. Looking at Google and Meta and Amazon and Apple.
Just came across this comparison recently in the book The Reverse Centaurs Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence). Highly recommend. Also, I’d be curious to read any books that cover these AI sweatshops.
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No staff is the dream goal for companies in general. Except for the C-suite. This isn’t terribly surprising, but will be unlikely to ever happen in reality. And yes, they are usually staffed by only several people, no matter how large the data center gets.