Wow, this is annoying. But, people should have access to the internet, so it's good I suppose. It really looks like someone's trying a new form of censorship. Here's hoping Google brings free speech to people (facebook is the king of sleezily building reputation). Also looks like facebook's trying to get rid of Google.

Canary is just the name for their nightly release channel, it's been named that for several years. Most people should not use Canary because it's mainly for finding bugs before they get sent to the Dev channel.

I don't really associate Dart with violence when I hear the word, haven't even consider it until you mentioned it just now. Dart to me (other than just a random short word that was unused and sounds decent) means precision and fast moving.

While Google did have gag orders, they did a lot to actually notify users, there were popups that would only appear when users accounts were accessed by someone with unusual permissions, they were the first to provide a transparency report with the numbers of law-enforcement requests (had to use ranges to stay legal but still provide the information). As soon as they found out the NSA was tapping their datacenter fiber connections they started encrypting the traffic and had a press release about it soon after.

Yeah, a company as large and powerful as Google is going to have all intelligence agencies pressuring them for information constantly, the worst thing they could do would be being completely silent about it and deny everything, but they haven't done that.

> Google's first ever reference to violence.

This is a stretch. The name "dart" comes from the other meaning of the word, as in "an act of running somewhere suddenly and rapidly." Source: I work on languages at Google.

I consider myself a truthist for lack of a better word. One who seeks the truth, however, more specially, a monothiest.

Check out TP-Link. They already have open source routers, from the factory.

There is psychological difficulty in changing your eating habits. If your actions have resulted in obesity, then the difficulty to change to be losing weight will be higher. So, psychologically it may be of a difficulty high enough to be considered infeasible, still not impossible.