It's Socratic Sunday! Here is an imagined dialogue btwn supporters/opponents of Google working on Project Maven and more generally pursuing DOD contracts, since the quality of this debate IRL is very low. Jane "Hawk" Jeffers supports GOOG/PM/DOD, Jill "Dove" Johnson doesn't.
I think that you are treating war as a struggle of good people against bad people, and conflate conflicts over resources, geopolitical influence and international stability with policing issues. Eventually, Google would have to take a stance on geopolitics, not just ethics.
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Got to that a bit at the end.
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but yes, this is not an exhaustive dialogue.
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And eventually any stance Google may take will have blurred boundaries, new geopolitical considerations, shifting regulatory constraints and unintended extrinsic consequences.
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For me, it seems that there are two separate questions: 1) does Google really want to become part of the government of the US and make decisions about war and peace? 2) is Google's employee morale and public image compatible with being a defense contractor?
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PS. If the regulatory constraints are insufficiently expensive, they are less constraining but still time consuming on multiple fronts
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