Good.

Google threatening us with a good time.

It's a huge effort to create a google account for a child without gmail. I had to sign my kids up using a fake age and a selfhosted email account. I could fix the age afterwards.

I'd estimate that 99% of under 18s on google have GMail already.

This whole thing is just a cover to read everyone's mail anyway. It's bizarre that it's illegal to read someone else's physical mail in Australia, but for email it will be illegal not to.

Google deliberately intertwine all their stuff so that they can pull junk like this. Maybe there's one product you really want; and probably that product was easily accessible and unencumbered when it was new. But now if you want to keep using it, you gotta let Google have their way with you - body and mind, you must submit or they'll take away the 'gift' that they originally gave freely.

Of course we shouldn't submit to threats like that. Giving in to that just makes them stronger, and us weaker - and so it gets worse.

This is a threat. Hands down. This is the same company that is telling schools "Oh you can not use our AI but that means you get no search either"

We set a boundary, they try to punish us. Put their fucking feet to the fire. Make them explain exactly why this would happen. And mock the living shit out of them in the stupidest way possible while doing it. Make it a PR disaster. Oh, your email is full of fucking porn? Do you not have spam filters? Are you that shit?

google refuses to make their product safe, blames users and the government instead of actually doing anything

Seems reasonable as no one should be using it.

Technically, this bill (and the other one in Britain) could shut under 16s from email in general.

Ok, but where is the bad part?

Oh no!

Approve! Approve! Only let technology get accessed by 18+! This solidifies a nations prosperity!

Let's not stop there! Welding stations, screwdrivers, any tools!

/s

Good news is far too rare these days, so how do we cut off over 18 zombies from gmail, google search, meta, twitter, amazon...