"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

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Amen. This was what stopped me from paying Google anything. Canceled premium, moved off drive, off Gmail. It's unethical to give them money or watch their ads. The company needs to fail.

They're too big to fail. Any amount of fine anyone can slap on them is just peanuts for them. They would rather break the law and use part of the gains to battle it out in court and push their opponents to bankruptcy. They have so much money that they can't help but spend it on subjugating the rule of law.

They have to be broken up. Broken up into a hundred different companies and spread around the world with restrictions on interacting with each other.

I agree. Even though they're just going to reconglomerate like Terminator 2/AT&T, we need to keep smashing them before they ruin it all.

This has been posted many times already, that's why its not being so upvoted now. But yeah, it will destroy the internet and put the control over what devices are allowed in the hands of current big tech mafia.

They can make sure you are not using Linux, that you have specific plugins disabled or enabled, etc. It removes the user choice over computer and browser choice we have today when visiting the websites with WEI enabled.

All Google needs to do is to give WEI sites a high search engine ranking, saying they are more secure, and all big web sites will enable it.