Why is Google Holding Schools Hostage?
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Last week, Google announced that in response to pressure from parents and educators. That they would no longer have AI tools turned on by default. In their popular education apps that are used in over sixty thousand K through twelve schools. There was, however, a catch. They said if you do not
Turn those tools back on. They're not gonna give you access To Google search. In other words, Google was holding these schools hostages and saying if you do not allow our vision of AI In your educational process, if you not let us to put our AI tools into your classroom
So that we in s in essence are having a big say in how kids learn, we're gonna turn off basic access. To the internet. As you can imagine. This did not go over well. Uh the I have a quote here, the law professor and anti monopoly advocate, Zephyr Teach out, tweeted the following and I'm reading here.
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