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We implore the European Commission to change course and fulfill their mission to enforce the law and protect their consumers, businesses, and governments from this gross assault on digital freedom.

The ADV program is a flagrant violation of both the spirit and the letter of the Digital Markets Act behind a vague and unsupported smokescreen of "security" — the same cover that Apple has used to successfully evade their own obligations under the act with impunity.

Google's move threatens to entrench themselves forever as a gatekeeper for all Android software, everywhere in the world.

At this very moment when Europe is mired in an existential struggle to establish their digital sovereignty and protect their consumers and businesses from the expanding menace of Big Tech,

When it is activated in September, ADV will non-consensually lock all Android users into using only software from Google-approved developers.

(Read the statement here: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc…)

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Well, I guess *some* people approve of Google's move to lock down @Android app development (@AndroidDev)! Take the poll at techhub.social/@keepandroido… #KeepAndroidOpen

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