For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
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
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.
100% will get her fired. 100%. Not now as it’s too connectable to the post she made, but in 6 months, they’ll find a reason to can her that can’t be traced to this.
I recall reading about one senior on the search team who had worked there for over a decade criticizing the changes G keeps making to favor their own interests (ads mostly) saying it degrades search results (he was right too as G has fallen to the same levels of DDG/Bing and Yahoo).
He got shuffled into a dead roll over the course of a year so he could no longer deter the project.
Now that’s a guy who didn’t want to build a bad product. What happens to people who take political stances that could hurt G’s revenue and stock prices? Yeah. She’s toast.
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.
I just pulled the levers in the gas chambers! I’m not a bad guy!!!
As if working at Google is remotely close to directly participating in the fucking Holocaust.
Yes you’re right. One overtly murders people in gruesome fashion. The other, does it insidiously by destroying the social fabric of communities so mass corporations can swoop in and own everything, forcing you into a further existence of consumption or death. Enjoy working 16h a day under your corporate overlords.
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?
As much I care about privacy and free market, I still consider war or genocide to be worse. Call me crazy 🤷♂️
For some reason I don’t find her sudden change of heart convincing. & I am happy to know that the rest of you feel the same.
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.
Nothing is enough for guys that comment on the internet. Maybe they should post comments on lemmy. That’ll show the world.
I’m still glad they wrote the piece.
Googlecide?
IBM : Nazi Party :: Google : IDF
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/235_no_tech_for_apartheid_w_mohammad_khatami__gabi_schubiner
Project Maven started in 2017. Stop making evil people famous and expecting something will change.
It’s not the same google.
Absolute monsters, they need to be culled, removed from power and influence.
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.
“Dont be evil” was never a promise it always had been a warning to the users.
How about yall start to be the change you want to see in the world and go to gaza and do something
Don’t you think they could do more good in the USA, since they’re the ones paying for it?
