zlacker

The comment you're responding to includes the line:

> The move, developed in partnership with Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency, is designed to prevent fraud and malware-enabled scams.

Your comment seems to disregard it and instead lay this entirely at Google's feet as if they're seeking anti-competitive behavior - but if this was driven by a government, does Google really deserve all the blame?

(Note that I am explicitly not endorsing the move. I think sideloading should be left mostly untouched.)

>>Klonoa+(OP)
> partnership

Could mean anything from reluctant to opportunistic.

>>Klonoa+(OP)
Singapore is far from a nation known for free speech or to pick the side of liberty should it come into conflict with security. I've no doubt whatsoever that approved apps on a CTS "hardware backed" remote attestation phone is more secure. It's also possible to remotely own such a device unambiguously, and provides a central place where apps can be taken offline. It's win win from the point of view of a security agency. It's not from mine.

>>Klonoa+(OP)
> Your comment seems to disregard it

Because it's irrelevant.

> but if this was driven by a government, does Google really deserve all the blame?

Of course. If the government ordered Google to assist in a genocide against some demographic, and Google goes along with it, it doesn't matter if the government is also evil. Google is evil for playing ball.

And we don't have to speak in hypotheticals. Both Google and Amazon are actively engaging in tech-assisted genocide.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nim...

I have boycotted Amazon for a while now and I'd boycott Google too if it wasn't so pervasive in my professional life.

>>soulof+R3
When you understand that this is not literally the truth, but is actually still true.

>>Klonoa+(OP)
Google has already been weighed and found guilty of creating and persisting systemic anti competitive policy.

>>redavn+z9
I'm not sure what you're talking about, mind elaborating?

>>Klonoa+(OP)
Isn't the Singapore government pretty authoritarian? They might have other motivation than just pure user security.

>>soulof+Of
I would love to, but this is the wrong forum. This is going to sound weird if you understand these events purely literally, but me and you are ideologically aligned, but not dialectically aligned. There is a much greater truth to this entire situation.

>>redavn+WA
And what is that truth?