Regardless of the interpretation of these maps, these do seem to show the power of a good tool built for the free market.
Here you have an app on everybody's phone that is such a useful tool that the government isn't even thinking to turn off in the middle of a war even when it's providing real time intelligence in the open about what is happening on the ground.
This seems like a great example of how openness in technology can overwhelm even one of the least Democratic governments through transparent infrastructure.
I bet when they were building Google maps back in the early/mid 2000s they never thought their tool would be used for real time tactical war reporting on civilian and troop movement.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] thread- Google shows the same areas as road blocks, not traffic.
- This is no where near the Moscow suburbs, as the map clearly shows.
Atrocious tweet.
Here you have an app on everybody's phone that is such a useful tool that the government isn't even thinking to turn off in the middle of a war even when it's providing real time intelligence in the open about what is happening on the ground.
This seems like a great example of how openness in technology can overwhelm even one of the least Democratic governments through transparent infrastructure.
I bet when they were building Google maps back in the early/mid 2000s they never thought their tool would be used for real time tactical war reporting on civilian and troop movement.