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don’t surveil alone! surveil together!
They should focus on not letting Google kill Android.
Is “kill” a strong word here? They are heavily restricting it, and it’s reversible with some effort, know-how, and compromise, right?
But killing it, I feel like they are not. Even though I strongly oppose what they are doing, don’t get me wrong!
I mean, it’s the Android Open Source Project. Restricting it would be against the interests of the Free Software/Open Source movements and I believe that’s a violation on the principles of the project in my opinion.
I would agree, but I wouldn’t say they are killing the project. 👍
Do the EU have the capability to fork it?
I don’t know, but I’m not sure if a government funded fork would be the right move.
Many people have their doubts about using funding for things like that, I wouldn’t be opposed to it but Europe has other problems that people might consider more urgent.
Can’t they not let Android get locked down in a few months too? It’ll almost become as bad as iOS at that point. Who knows they might even block installation of other OSs in the future.
The EU doesn’t actually care about user freedom, they just want as much surveillance as possible.
Almost?
Theoretically you’ll still be able to sideload but only after going through a convoluted process.
They had no reason to wait till the AI boom for this, could have done it long ago when google assistant was the only one allowed access to these things.
