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Google faces Antitrust suit filed by new social media company Gab.ai.
The legal action is the latest salvo in an escalating battle between right-leaning technologists and leaders against Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Google.
Gab alleges in the lawsuit that "Google deprives competitors, on a discriminatory basis, of access to the App Store, which an essential facility or resource."
"Google is the biggest threat to the free flow of information," Gab chief executive Andrew Torba said in a statement. "Gab started to fight against the big tech companies in the marketplace, and their monopolistic conduct has forced us to bring the fight to the courtroom."
Gab has published its court filing.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:46AM (6 children)
I used it for a bit but I'm not agreeing to an EULA to use a website. A website can put whatever they want in their ToS and give me the boot if they like but I'm not going to be contractually bound to a damned thing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Saturday September 16 2017, @02:54AM (5 children)
Pretty much every site has a EULA now. Not one here but it is the exception. Anyway, read it before flaming; it is pretty reasonable as EULAs go. And since the banning wars are only starting it is probably a good idea to have a backup account somewhere that is making NOT banning people a cornerstone of the operation.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 16 2017, @03:49AM (4 children)
Their EULA, at the time of introduction, would have had them able to sue us as a site and me in particular for using a script to post SN stories instead of doing it manually. It may look reasonable at first glance but it's a piece of shit and I'm not accepting a contract to use a site. Ever.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:54AM (1 child)
Their early EULA was probably just copypasta. Still has some oddities in it but it gets better, you aren't the only one who has raised issues with em and they have iterated it in response to feedback which is a positive sign. Don't see anything in the current version that would prevent automated posting of new story headlines into a soylent account. Spamming OTHER accounts with a script would probably be problematic and get ya banned. Don't see where they have a published API to make it easy either.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:11AM
Banned I could give two shits about. With an EULA they could sue us though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:00AM (1 child)
I'm not sure I follow. You wanted to quote gab.ai pages in story submissions to SoylentNews?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:51AM
No, I was considering the possibility of setting up a SN account on Gab.ai and syndicating our headlines and links there like we do on Twitter and Facebook. I haven't returned since they put up the EULA though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.