You're confusing teaching with making information available.

Public schools generally do not teach critical thinking and only limited problem solving.

Why would I care about a bunch of betas? Because it will lead to a few footnotes in some YouTube videos?

Adults don't kowtow to dictators. That's kiddie shit. No wonder it impressed you.

The problem is that they exposed costly dynamic content without requiring authorization and that is no longer viable. No unverified user should ever have the power to bring up any dynamic content whose impact you cannot address through caching.

The real reason is that the rule of law does not exist. Only the rule of money is real. As long as terms of use mean nothing unless you have deep pockets, the beatings will continue.

OK, so we change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of Presidential Popularity and Lake Ontario to Lake TrumpRapedChildren?

The world is much better for him as he wanders off with hundreds of millions of profits gained primarily through treating customers like the dumbest dipshits on the planet. CEOs of megacorporations don't care about other people, if they did, they wouldn't have what it takes to become CEOs of megacorporations.

He's worried that people who support him might notice how he's fucking up, so he's employing a distraction. He's not very smart so this is the best he can do, but his followers are even less so, so this works.

Google Maps displays incorrect names for geographical locations.

And then you still have to force it to stop after disabling it, because disable doesn't mean disable to Google. If they don't actually quit the app, how will they continue to steal your location data?

Oh yeah, from play services.

We've gotten to the point where phone makers shouldn't be allowed to bundle any apps with the phone. Gross.

The kernel is not the operating system, only part of it. As long as Google is keeping parts of their system closed it makes legal sense to subject them to the requirement. As long as they are putting a lot into play services...

Using passport as national ID is common and you could have just googled it to find out like I did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The passport is more than sufficient as an actual ID. It is sufficient for ID in all situations. The Driver's License verifies the right to drive, and the ID at the state level. It's the driver's license which is insufficient as an ID, not the passport. The passport always verifies identity.

Welcome to capitalism.

The USA has national ID, it's called a passport. (Real ID was supposed to be a national ID, but it's been watered down so that it effectively isn't one.) The passport or passport card is the gold standard of ID because it verifies both nationality and citizenship.

The USA also has national online ID verification, it's called ID.me. It's shit, but it exists.