A counterargument against "Google is evil." I know lots of people who (a) work at Google, (b) don't need to, (c) have high moral standards, and (d) know better than politicians or reporters what Google actually does.
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Counter-counter argument. I used to work at Google, and know many people who like me left because Google is evil.
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Evil is a strong word, perhaps used rashly here, but Google have broken laws around data collection many times (harvesting WiFi data without consent, DeepMind breaking NHS data protection laws e.t.c.). Lying about efficacy of sales models that say "spend more money on ads" etc
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So reading between the lines, what you’re saying is good people with high moral standards who know more than politicians or reporters sometimes work for organizations doing evil things
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Many orgs are political, nepotistic and have done a good job making many young people I know go from being passionate about the internet and motivated every day to go to work to despondent and depressed. Maybe not evil just big company dysfunctional.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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complete obliteration of privacy online in the name os selling ads (of questionable efficacy btw, I mean, the extra targeting layer based on surveillance)... you don’t even have to use their products to get caught on this
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sure, they also do a lot of good to the world (search, maps etc.), but did they really have to go that far on surveillance? adwords as it was originally already minted cash, was brilliant and harmless... what happened there?
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I posted the essay/overview for a reason: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-mozilla-overview_92.html …
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I wonder if you also saw https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yuhong … where I was banned.
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