Good argument for dismantling Google and any other company of similar size.
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If the only people agreeing with you are on 4chan then maybe you should reconsider if you’re as correct as you believe.
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You’re not evil, you’re just a cunt 🤷
The why’d they remove their evil canary clause from their mission statement
Can’t fool me, they gave it away when they removed “Don’t be evil” from their motto back in 2015.
They were already evil at that time so honestly it was refreshingly honest when they dropped it
Except they didn’t drop it.
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_be_evil it’s dropped. Telling investors somewhere in the code of conduct is different from being their official motto
Do you own stock in Alphabet or are you a bootlicker for free?
Didn’t realize correcting false information is boot licking.
Enjoy living in your own reality where you tell yourself whatever makes you feel better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_be_evil
“Don’t be evil” is Google’s former motto, and a phrase used in Google’s corporate code of conduct.
The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. In April 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]
Please explain how verified facts is false information.
EDIT: Also, why did you not contest the claim from others who proved you wrong, if they are all wrong?
They just moved it. It’s still in place. Thanks for proving me right.
Yeah they changed from “We can’t do evil” to “If we do evil, that’s on you to report”. That’s exactly the same.
You didn’t correct false information. “Don’t be evil” was removed from their motto and you didn’t give any evidence to disprove that.
No they didn’t. Please stop spreading this false rumour.
https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
That’s not their motto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil was specifically removed from their motto in 2015
“Stop spreading this false rumor” and then gets proven wrong by a simple link to Wikipedia found in 5 seconds on google. I’m curious if they own stock in Alphabet, as I wouldn’t give a shit about their internal code of ethics when they don’t seemingly obey them.
Also “false rumor” is kind of a needless statement. A rumor is false until proven true. Like an “unsolved mystery” is always unsolved, if it was solved, it would not be a mystery.
That’s not their code of conduct, they are telling YOU not to be evil.
Exactly this man
The first time I saw the slogan all I could think is “a normal not-evil person doesn’t need to make such a disclaimer”.
Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.
There’s also another continuation: “fool me twice - shame on me”.
The above was a reference to a rather famous instance of George W Bush fumbling over trying to remember the full quite.
He didn’t forget the quote, he realized he was going to say “shame on me” and didn’t want to be quoted as saying “shame on me” so was trying to think of something else to say
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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Oh. Thx.
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…”
Maybe being evil would be to not change the motto and start doing evil acts anyway. Simpler answer is that somebody probably thought it was a stupid thing to have on there in the first place, and was likely thought up by a Cheeto stained LOTR neckbeard.
“Good and evil are arbitrary” mfers when I chop off their balls and feed them to their kids because I wanted to:
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.
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?
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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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.
Y’all I found the bad guy
This is the best summary I could come up with:
You might not expect an antitrust trial focused on Google’s overwhelming dominance in the year 2023 to spend a lot of time talking about Internet Explorer circa 2005.
One exhibit proved particularly interesting: a letter from Google’s then-top lawyer David Drummond, sent on July 22nd, 2005, to Microsoft’s then-general counsel Brad Smith.
Microsoft was tech’s dominant player and a ruthless competitor, Pichai argued, and it was doing an acceptable thing — prioritizing its own products — in a uniquely shady way.
“I realized for the first time the internet would touch most of humanity and it was a once-in-a-generation opportunity.” He quoted Google’s original mission without missing a beat, and said that “if anything, it’s more timeless and relevant than ever before.”
Google uses the rev-share structure to incentivize Android OEMs like Samsung, HTC, and Motorola to promote their devices, he said, and even maintain them better over time.
(When Judge Amit Mehta asked how that worked, Pichai said Google makes some of its rev-share money dependent on devices getting security updates.
The original article contains 1,280 words, the summary contains 171 words. Saved 87%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
It would be pretty funny for a court to actually determine that a “just business” is synonymous with “doing evil”
In general I think business is not good or evil. They just operate on law frameworks given to them.
If company can be 30% more efficient by being more “on the edge” of law and regulation, it is more probably going to succeed.
This is why governments must regulate the hell out of everything, because the system itself is not doing it. It should include data protection, unions, environment etc.
/r/selfawarewolves
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So companies are people when it’s convenient for them to be so, and ‘just a business’ when it isn’t.
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yikers
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Let’s maybe leave the racism at the front door? Or, you know, entirely?
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Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
You sure about that?
Slavery was just business at some point, what kind of justification is this?!
But it wasn’t just business. It was also slavery.
An endeavor that’s just business requires all the people involved to be doing business.
Obviously you’ve never met anyone in middle management.
No, businesses are people. Corporations have fought to make that a distinction. So therefore it can be evil. Can’t have it both ways.
Oh Mitt Romney, what a legacy.
No one thinks they’re the bad guy. That doesn’t change the fact that their actions speak for themselves.
