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> "Google's motto is 'don't be evil.' Google's illegal confidentiality agreements and policies fail this test," the lawsuit said. It occurs to me only now that
by gdulli 10y ago
> "Google's motto is 'don't be evil.' Google's illegal confidentiality agreements and policies fail this test," the lawsuit said.
It occurs to me only now that a company that wasn't evil wouldn't need to make such a show of stating it like this.
- givinguflac 10y agoEven better, they've since changed the slogan, citing it as being silly.
- Dylan16807 10y agoIt didn't help that it tempted every criticism of google to call them evil, even when the disliked action was clearly not evil.
- UncleMeat 10y ago"Don't be evil" was never Google's official mission, but it hasn't changed. All of the FUD when Alphabet was formed was nonsense.
- grzm 10y ago"Don't be evil" was never Google's official mission What do you mean by this? Are you making a distinction between "mission" and being part of the Google Code of Conduct? "Don't be evil" was the corporate motto of Google.[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil Google Code of Conduct Preface "Don't be evil." Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that.[1] [1]: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html The Wikipedia page notes that this was included in the Google Code of Conduct in 2012 as well, prior to the incorporation of Alphabet.
- rifung 10y agoI don't know anything about it being a slogan, but it's in the Code of Conduct still. I just started at Google and had to sign it.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoAccording to the OP, you're going to get fired.
- akerro 10y agoBecause no one in Google, even founders were able to explain what 'evil' means for them.
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