- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
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Aaaaand she’s fired.
After 20y of equity I think she’ll be fine (financially).
Or worse, “accidentally” fell out of the window. Crazy times.
“Dont be evil” was never a promise it always had been a warning to the users.
Can’t be many of us who thought the web search engine company would turn into the killbot company.
I got a little suspicious when they stopped using “Don’t be evil”.
At least they didn’t keep up the farce and exaggerate it: “Don’t be evil. Ever. We’re still not evil. Nuh uh, nope.”
Yup, but around the time they came out with Google Desktop I started to wonder what the future held.
If you still use Chrome uninstall it now
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Google/Alphabet’s previous CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt was best friends with Henry Kissinger.
The author should have quit long ago. Many employees are complicit.
They get paid 500k a year.
Yeah, I get paid 1/10th of that and I could do a lot better - and I used to - but I work for a nonprofit I care about. Greed is a hell of a drug.
all* employees
She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”
She could have said nothing and kept quiet like the thousands of other workers at Google, this could not only get her fired but maybe even blacklisted in the industry, that’s far more than you’ve ever done or will ever do to bring attention to this issue, so how about you keep that cynicism in check.
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Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.
Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless of this single issue.
If all the people who disagreed left, there would be no chance of opposition
The opposition comes from us, the consumers who refuse to use Google products.
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As if working at Google is remotely close to directly participating in the fucking Holocaust.
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Project Maven started in 2017. Stop making evil people famous and expecting something will change.
IBM : Nazi Party :: Google : IDF
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/235_no_tech_for_apartheid_w_mohammad_khatami__gabi_schubiner
Do they feel heartbreak over the millions of dollars in compensation and stock options they’ve collected in those decades? Easy to write piece like this and go back to your comfortable lifestyle and just feel the fuzzy feeling of speaking out about a bad guy.
I’m still glad they wrote the piece.
Nothing is enough for guys that comment on the internet. Maybe they should post comments on lemmy. That’ll show the world.
It’s not the same google.
always has been
So the author was fine with every other fucked up, privacy invading, monopolistic practice from Google, but it was a tenuous relationship with Israel that they can’t forgive?
Listen pal, I was fine with invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands, but I draw the line at France!
As much I care about privacy and free market, I still consider war or genocide to be worse. Call me crazy 🤷♂️
i mean monopolistic and privacy invading versus associating with something that is slaughtering women and children in their own land, it’s not the same in my opinion.
Privacy should not exist.
Google is evil
I remember getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when Google removed “Don’t be evil” from their Code of Conduct
Why else would you need to remove that phrase unless you wanted to do something bad?
When you start hiring less intelligent people who can’t help but actually believe the propaganda.
Googlecide?
