Google is on the Wrong Side of History
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Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would not...
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    813·
    4 hours ago

    Literally every publicly owned corporation that is at the mercy of shareholders is on the wrong side of history.

    As this shit gets normalized, watch all of them fall in line.

    Apple is already back advertising on X.

    Corporations only care about money, and they will change their values to match what makes money.

    They never accepted women, blacks, latinos, LGBTQ+, and the disabled into their ranks because they thought those people were humans who had intrinsic value just for existing.

    No, they accepted them because they knew they were leaving money on the table. They could market shaving to women to increase razor blade sales, because now women employees would have money to spend. They could market hair care products to the black community because now their black employees would have money to spend.

    It was always about expanding markets and finding more people to sell shit to. Once that stops being profitable in the USA, treating those people like humans will stop. Watch it happen with the disabled and LGBTQ+ first.

    It was never just Rainbow Capitalism, because this shit literally goes all the way back to Women’s Suffrage and the Civil Rights eras. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    201·
    4 hours ago

    Mega corps are enemy of the people but the people are too stupid to recognize it…

    Culture of bootlicking among adults in the US is endemic and nothing will change until freedom enjoyers hit critical mass.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    But they’re always right, just look at Google glass, Google plus, and Stadia… Or google buzz, google health, and igoogle.

    Yep, Google never gets it wrong.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    37·
    3 hours ago

    That’s why I just upgraded my subscription to Proton. (YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DRAMA WITH THEIR CEO!!! AT LEAST THEY’RE NOT SELLING AI SERVICES TO MILITARY CONTRACTORS, DOING MASS SURVEILLANCE OR SELLING MY FUCKING DATA!)