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0 pointspaulryanrogers13d ago0 comments

I think the implication is that their moral compass was disregarded or non-existent until they gained their independence. Therefore not worthy of serious consideration.

People who don't ever consider or speak of morals or ethics are beside the point.

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dietr1ch12d ago

This kind of assumes that Google hasn't been progressively testing how far it can go to secure big contracts.

Over a 10+ year period it dropped the do no evil part, it implemented code siloes claiming it was because of Waymo's code being stolen, it prevented a union from being formed, it got into military and genocidal contracts.

I don't think it's the nice place to work at it was in the 2000s and early 2010s where the worst moral offence was advertising though a monopoly

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