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.
(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.