They've survived this long without whoring themselves out, why start now?
Not sure what you define that as. They sold the 'default search provider' slot in an auction. They have a paid referral agreement with Google, which is in large part realised by Google's position as default search engine. This has comprised almost the entirety of Mozilla's income (85%+) for the years it was being reported as a percentage of income, and since 2012 likely comprises almost their entire income. Once the initial agreement expired they had Yahoo as default for a while, but then in 2014, they struck a deal with Google for a billion dollars over three years in order to keep Google back at the top - that deal was then renewed in 2017.
Selling the 'default search provider' slot is their primary means of income. I don't understand why, when Microsoft is looking to get in on that position, you suddenly consider such a move "whoring themselves out". That's been the main way they make their money for a long time now. If Microsoft is willing to pay more than Google, undoubtedly the executives will be all for it. As usage has dwindled, executive pay and bonuses have skyrocketed, largely off the back of such deals.
BTW, the same ideas were tried in the USA and they were just as evil and wrongheaded here as they were there.
Which was my entire point. Why are you painting NZ/Aus as some kind of freedom-hating backwater, when the same was done where appropriate in the US? If these actions are NZ/Aus hating freedom, then I guess America also hates freedom. Weird.
Are you unfamiliar with the Northern Territories? NT is self-governed, and not representative of the Australian Federal government response. It'd be like saying the decisions of the government of Texas or even Puerto Rico represent the US Federal Government. Are all of your stories going to be about the Northern Territories?
and well documented camps; I said only that they existed and were real.
A proposed village so that folks would be able to stay in houses rather than hotel rooms during a quarantine period. Even less restrictive than a hotel is. Doesn't look like it will go forward.
Here is a video with firsthand testimony from folks sent to these camps for punitive measures with full video of the camps, the doctors/staff, and the accommodations.
Haha, ah yeah Hayley - typical troublemaker. Lied to contact tracers about getting tested, and Northern Territory officials put her in quarantine because of it. Again, NT, not really representative of Australia, but understandable you didn't understand that distinction. Yes - someone physically in the continent of Australia broke the law and had to deal with the repercussions of that.
and in some cases and were specifically setup for the purpose for punitive COVID quarantine as the ABC article linked below specifically discusses and the youtube video linked above clearly backs up with serious evidence.
The location the travel writer discussed, and the location in the YouTube video, are the same place. It was not set up specifically for "punitive COVID quarantine". It was set up for "COVID quarantine". That a public health menace had to quarantine there because she lied to contact tracers about testing negative doesn't deem the location as being "specifically set up for the purpose of punitive COVID quarantine". It was literally the only place they were quarantining people in Darwin.
Folks were arrested for leaving, which makes it a prison camp.
No, it makes it a quarantine. Are you unfamiliar with how quarantines work? Have you never travelled anywhere in the world where quarantines are in place? Is your lack of experience the only basis for your idea that something uniquely terrible was happening in NZ/Aus? Did you not try to travel to Hawaii during the SafeTravel period, whilst unvaccinated?
That article was a BBC propaganda bit, was that also right-winger conspiratorial "misinformation"?
No, it just didn't say anything that supports your position. It said Australia had some of the strongest border controls during COVID. Australia did - something I admitted from the outset; To quote myself
>> In truth, NZ/Aus did absolutely nothing different to what much of the US did during Covid, with the exception of having border quarantines.
Meanwhile this didn't affect almost anyone in NZ/Aus whatsoever.
The policies were bullshit everywhere it's just the disarmed Aussies took it harder up the butt by their government than most
Except they didn't, and this is what I keep trying to point out to you and you keep not getting. Most people did whatever they hell the wanted and it didn't affect anyone. Some people got fines when there were mask mandates, but most people got their fines overturned subsequently. Yes - there were strict border controls; I never denied that - only pointed out there were also strict border controls in the US in the only place they could possibly implement them - Hawaii. Literally all your articles about Australian COVID camps are about a single location in the Northern Territories which was almost entirely utilized for the aforementioned border quarantine arrivals in NT.
Seriously, you have some weird idea that things were much worse in Australia/NZ than they actually were.
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