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Every once in awhile their Don't be evil motto reminds us that it still exists. Reading in between the lines, it seems that they must feel that the Chinese gov
by carbocation 17y ago
Every once in awhile their Don't be evil motto reminds us that it still exists.
Reading in between the lines, it seems that they must feel that the Chinese government was involved in the attacks on the user accounts. Otherwise, the first portion of the post re: cyber security has little to do with the latter portion re: dealing with China at all. This is a fairly clever approach to conveying such a heavy message without stating it.
- siculars 17y agoNobody does data mining better than good 'ole Google. If they went public with this post you can be sure there is more to it than what you're reading.
- borism 17y ago"in order to say 'don't be evil' you must already dwell in that space of evil" -Slavoj Zizek at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0eyNkNpL0#t=1h13m55s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0eyNkNpL0#t=1h13m55s
- houseabsolute 17y agoI can't really spend the time to watch that video right now, nor am I in the right context. Could someone summarize it for me? It can't be that what he's saying is that you have to be evil for "don't be evil" to have any meaning, because that would be moronic. But I can't parse any other meaning from this short little quote. Edit: no, that's not what he's saying, but I think I might not have the intellectual capacity to paraphrase what he did say well without thinking about it some more.
- defen 17y agoHonestly, you shouldn't waste too many brain cycles on trying to decode Zizek
- houseabsolute 17y agoI'll take your word for it then.
- jacoblyles 17y agoI thought that was weird. Nowhere in the post do they say that the attacks were done by the Chinese government. We're all just assuming that is the case.
- varjag 17y agoIt very much reads between the lines. That's about how much they can go with public accusation without actually having to avoid libel charges and turn up evidence in court. It is quite certain their lawyers worked a lot with the text.
- jonknee 17y agoChina suing Google for libel-now that would be rich.