It’s a capitalist corporation that sold its soul to the highest bidder. Of course it’s evil. It’s based on greed and exploitation.
Google is on the Wrong Side of History.
Submitted 2 months ago by Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/google-wrong-side-history
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El_guapazo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Billionaire bad?? How could this be!!? I was told whenever two parties entered into a voluntary agreement it meant both of them mutually improved their situation and that if you got billions out of it, it meant by definition that you did a lot of good!
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 months ago
Here’s a gun to your head, now, it would be beneficial to you to hand over your wallet m’kay?
No bullet in your brain, more cash in my hand, both parties benefit! See how that works?
Oh, you have a lump growing in your thyroid, mmmm… that is bad. We can cut that out for you and most people we do that to live a lot longer, but first we need you to mortgage your home and give us the proceeds. See how that works?
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We knew this as soon as they got rid of the “Don’t be evil” slogan
merde@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
☞ We knew this as soon as they got the “Don’t be evil” slogan
if you need to remind yourself not to be evil, that’s already a bad start.
AfricanGrey@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
All the CEOs are dick riding Trump because they know the playbook. You’ve every seen kowtowing this hard before because you’ve never witnessed the rise of a christofascism. They know what’s coming/here, and that the god emperor is all that matters going forward.
Fungah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re not from America are you?
I ask this because you seem to actually grasp what’s happening.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GoogleAmerica is on the Wrong side of History.RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Been that way since before the “Don’t be evil” slogan was removed in 2018.
pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s just when they let the mask slip. It’s not like they were saints up til that point.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hence “before they removed” the slogan.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
I don’t think they actually removed that slogan though? They moved it from the start of the Code of Conduct to the end, but it’s still there: abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/
tyler@programming.dev 2 months ago
You’re right but people don’t care. That’s why you’re getting downvoted. In any case it’s not like it matters, does a slogan or code of conduct actually stop a company from doing shady shit? Anyone that brings it up is just doing so because they don’t really understand the situation.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Always has been.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
🌍 👩🚀 🔫 👩🚀
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck them
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Fuck what they stand for and implemented. The technologies developed are useful but the maliciousness of it ruins everything. So fuck that part of them.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
And has been so for over a decade at least, probably two
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But they’re always right, just look at Google glass, Google plus, and Stadia… Or google buzz, google health, and igoogle.
Yep, Google never gets it wrong.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s why I just upgraded my subscription to Proton. (YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DRAMA WITH THEIR CEO!!! AT LEAST THEY’RE NOT SELLING AI SERVICES TO MILITARY CONTRACTORS, DOING MASS SURVEILLANCE OR SELLING MY FUCKING DATA!)
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I switched to Tuta for email and calendar and other services for other products. I try to avoid putting too many eggs in a given basket.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
GO BACK TO SENDING PIECES OF PAPER IN THE MAILBOX YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT /s
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I ALREADY DO GOD DAMMIT! (Seriously I have pen pals. I write letters every year. I’m actually late and need to write them!)
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
what the hell man
venusaur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ever heard of JP Morgan or GE? Doesn’t matter.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When have they not?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Literally every corporation is.
As this shit gets normalized, watch all of them fall in line.
Apple is already back advertising on X.
Corporations only care about money, and they will change their values to match what makes money.
They never accepted women, blacks, latinos and the disabled into their ranks because they thought those people were humans who had intrinsic value just for existing.
No, they accepted them because they knew they were leaving money on the table. They could market shaving to women to increase razor blade sales, because now women employees would have money to spend. They could market hair care products to the black community because now their black employees would have money to spend.
It was always about expanding markets and finding more people to sell shit to. Once that stops being profitable in the USA, treating those people like humans will stop. Watch it happen with the disabled first.
holdstrong@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Corporations just reflect the values of their owners. There are companies that emphasize things other than revenue, but as soon as a company goes public and becomes controlled by Wall Street, profit becomes their sole motivation
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is why the stock market was, fundamentally, a trojan horse. It was created so capitalism could intertwine the peoples wealth and retirement funds to the success of the wealth of the oligarchy, making the entire market too big to fail.
Now the entire system is designed to prevent damage to companies, no matter how moral, unethical, or criminal. The success of corporations IS treated as equal to “national security”.
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup, but most people have savings or some kind of pension, both are often put into the stock market by the bank or pension fund to give us the interest we want.
We need to try and exercise more of our power as stakeholder in these companies, in the end we still have the power to not use products from these massive corporations. Stop order from shit like Amazon, but go and order from smaller stores, switch search engine and browser, etc.
criitz@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Capitalism is amoral
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
No ethical consumption under capitalism, yep.
ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unfortunately alternatives aren’t any better…
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
That makes zero sense. Paying people so they can spend a tiny fraction of it back to your company? Why not just keep the money in the first place?
No, they hire them because they’ve run the math and realized it costs less to hire them than that it costs them in sales due to public perception.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You might need to pause and think a bit more. Corporations are competing for money. There isn’t just one big pile of money somewhere.