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Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business

quantum_mechanic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Lol, how simplistic do you have to be to believe this means anything? First off, you need to believe in good and evil, which are completely arbitrary. And do you think they thought “hmm, we need to start doing evil things do extract more profit… Change the motto so everybody knows! But then we’ll pretend to not be evil when confronted about this change…”

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Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“Good and evil are arbitrary” mfers when I chop off their balls and feed them to their kids because I wanted to:

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Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They started deemphasizing the motto when they became a conglomerate in 2015, and removed it completely in 2018 after employees started getting fired for criticizing Google’s shady dealings with the Customs and Border Protection Agency.

Essentially, the employees argued that Google including “don’t be evil” in their contracts made them ethically obligated to speak up against bad behavior, and they didn’t actually want that. So it appears Google did indeed have a definition of “evil,” and when forced to choose between changing their practice or their definition, they chose the latter.

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skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It's what is known as a canary statement. Taken from when miners used to take canaries into the mines so that the bird would die first if there was toxic gas.

If the canary is dead, something is wrong. Google had it in their mission statement to not do bad things, then that was quietly removed. The canary is dead.

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Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Y’all I found the bad guy

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wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Spoken like a guy who wants to avoid getting in trouble for being a bad person

Google seems a great fit for you

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- seth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We should’ve seen it coming; I just realized I’ve never heard “ogle” used in a positive way, and it’s what the company name is literally commanding us to do. Hindsight is 20/20.
  
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Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So what you’re saying is that driving a rusty nail through your eyeball into your brain isn’t evil at all, and totally fine to do?

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