A spokesperson for Google pointed us to an AP article noting the game was removed from the Play store “because it did not prohibit users from adopting hateful language in naming.”
So it was effectively banned for a lack of naming moderation. Mike should add that feature to his moderation game ;-)
Our libel laws are amongst the worst in the world, but we're starting to look at making them better.
See the Guardian's piece on Oligarch's abusing the system and how it's leading change.
Also, MPs are looking to introduce new laws around defamation.
Here in the UK, it's known as the "Daily Fail", for obvious reasons.
Majority shareholder, the 4th Viscount Rothermere, aptly named Johnny Harmsworth is just a cunt leading his paper in spouting racist, xenophobic and homophobic incendiary viewpoints.
It's usefulness as a newspaper is purely for wiping your arse on.
I'm pretty sure that if you dropped a few million to NetFlix and other streaming services, they could give you some fairly decent anonymised data that could help verify the data being collected, especially for max speeds over various providers. They probably have this through their Fast speed checker website
I honestly look forward to China turning the copyright tables on the US and fucking the rest of us over.
If we want things to change then it cannot come quickly enough, no matter the amount of collateral damage. Until then this shit will keep happening.
This isn't just a Stadia problem, it's a problem across all of Google's products.
Nobody invests time or money in Google's products because we know from experience that they'll be canned in a few years. A decade ago any Google product launch would have tens of thousands of fanboys lapping it up and extolling the virtues of whatever came out of the Chocolate Factory. But not any more, or at least not without the cancellation caveats.
Google just doesn't seem to care about the collateral damage these product cancellations cause, but it's a cumulative problem. Every cancellation results in less trust in the next product, meaning an inevitable poor take-up and early death.
Here's Ars Technica's closing comment on their review piece of Stadia when it came out, under the heading of "The Ugly":
The prospect of paying full price for games that only last as long as Google supports the service.
Disappointed...
...that it wasn't a real church as then we'd have a god of a lawsuit.
AKA
Robert "The Third" Reich
Hmm
Was going to add more and posted accidentally. But, you know what, it's pretty good as is.
Are Your Fucking Kidding
I Can Haz Money?
They've got to pay for that $5 billion WWE purchase somehow.
Name change
Now would be a good time for everyone to change their name to Spartacus
Dissent
Just Don't
Uploading photos of yourself to a website that collects photos? You've got to be some level of stupid to even consider that.
Witnessed a crime?
I think we all saw the Jan 6th Capitol attack, so yeah.
Meanwhile, in the UK
Our libel laws are amongst the worst in the world, but we're starting to look at making them better. See the Guardian's piece on Oligarch's abusing the system and how it's leading change. Also, MPs are looking to introduce new laws around defamation.
UK's Right Wing Mouthpiece
Here in the UK, it's known as the "Daily Fail", for obvious reasons. Majority shareholder, the 4th Viscount Rothermere, aptly named Johnny Harmsworth is just a cunt leading his paper in spouting racist, xenophobic and homophobic incendiary viewpoints. It's usefulness as a newspaper is purely for wiping your arse on.
Says it all
I could not have said it better.
Real world speeds
I'm pretty sure that if you dropped a few million to NetFlix and other streaming services, they could give you some fairly decent anonymised data that could help verify the data being collected, especially for max speeds over various providers. They probably have this through their Fast speed checker website
Schadenfreude
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving company. How's that "thermonuclear war" going, Apple?
Instigating copyright change
I honestly look forward to China turning the copyright tables on the US and fucking the rest of us over. If we want things to change then it cannot come quickly enough, no matter the amount of collateral damage. Until then this shit will keep happening.
Google Graveyard and the Self Fulling Prophecy
This isn't just a Stadia problem, it's a problem across all of Google's products. Nobody invests time or money in Google's products because we know from experience that they'll be canned in a few years. A decade ago any Google product launch would have tens of thousands of fanboys lapping it up and extolling the virtues of whatever came out of the Chocolate Factory. But not any more, or at least not without the cancellation caveats. Google just doesn't seem to care about the collateral damage these product cancellations cause, but it's a cumulative problem. Every cancellation results in less trust in the next product, meaning an inevitable poor take-up and early death. Here's Ars Technica's closing comment on their review piece of Stadia when it came out, under the heading of "The Ugly":
It wasn't prophetic, it was inevitable.Thermonuclear
Hearing this, Steve Jobs will be turning in his round-cornered slab like coffin.