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That was where it was uploaded first, the takedowns were for it being later hosted on azure cloud services

He’s funny when he cares, he stopped caring about family guy a looooooooooooooooooong time ago. Eh, whatever.

I don’t understand, are you bemoaning that the company in question who owns benchy is ending things amicably?

They changed the license on benchy, which is the thing that they needed to do to end the whole fiasco. I saw plenty of discussion and the internet is really good at inflaming passions. I wouldn’t classify what I saw as panic, but I think concern and confusion was rampant.

Reporting about how the maps team reclassified the US as a “sensitive country”, a la: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/google-reclassifies-us-as-sensitive-country-like-china-russia-.html

Step two of the plan you outlined was inverted by Google, but the effect is the same: IIRC it only shows up that way for US users.

Edit: apparently that was either a lie or incomplete info, see comments elsewhere in this thread.

It’s doing what it was made to do: be abnormal enough to cause people to diagetically share their brand.