GOOGLE IS PLANNING to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. [More]"Don't be evil," Opposite Day "progressive-style...
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Who here besides me is old enough to remember how the left picketed Polaroid for MONTHS because they were selling South Africa the photo-ID equipment they used to create “travel ID cards” to enforce apartheid? That wasn’t one tenth as evil as what the leftists at Google are doing right now.
"Don't be evil" was once a Google motto, but they dropped all pretense of that.
I'm not sure when the written promise "Don't be evil" changed to an unwritten policy of "only do evil when it advances our goals", but they did officially drop "Don't be evil" earlier this year.
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393
And what 'evil' are Google employees quitting their jobs over?
Providing the US government with object recognition software to help the DOD analyze drone footage.
https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300
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