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How is ISIS top 2 on your list of threats to humanity? They are at best a regional threat. Google can do considerably more damage on a global scale.

CydeWeys 9y ago
They literally just killed eight people on a path that I bike down all the time. Your comment is poorly timed. Also, I can't take you seriously when you're saying that Google can do considerably more global damage than IS. Think a little bit more before speaking. IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries, and has severely curtailed the rights of millions of people in the afflicted regions that it took over. Those are all people like you and I, and what happened to them matters. There's just no comparison between that and you losing access to some API. Boo hoo.
- lightbyte 9y ago
  Literally hundreds/thousands of people are killed by our own citizens every day, I'm not concerned with an additional 8. Google has the ability to negatively affect hundreds of millions of lives on a global scale over a significantly long term. ISIS is not even in the same ballpark.
- orf 9y ago
  > IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries So has the USA, and likely all current first-world countries. Should the USA not be #1 on the threats to humanity? Actually, come to think of it, drinking has been directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries. Maybe that should be #2? Your list of threats is just the current round of scare mongering topics. Noticeably lacking are actual threats, like climate change and the rise of nationalism. And yes, a company that controls as much information (and access to that information) can be very very dangerous.
bovermyer 9y ago
The two examples I gave were not the top two, nor in any particular order. However, they do make a practice of killing people, which Google does not. Also, the elimination of a minor API is hardly a globally-damaging action.

CydeWeys 9y ago

They literally just killed eight people on a path that I bike down all the time. Your comment is poorly timed. Also, I can't take you seriously when you're saying that Google can do considerably more global damage than IS. Think a little bit more before speaking. IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries, and has severely curtailed the rights of millions of people in the afflicted regions that it took over. Those are all people like you and I, and what happened to them matters. There's just no comparison between that and you losing access to some API. Boo hoo.

lightbyte 9y ago
Literally hundreds/thousands of people are killed by our own citizens every day, I'm not concerned with an additional 8. Google has the ability to negatively affect hundreds of millions of lives on a global scale over a significantly long term. ISIS is not even in the same ballpark.
orf 9y ago
> IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries So has the USA, and likely all current first-world countries. Should the USA not be #1 on the threats to humanity? Actually, come to think of it, drinking has been directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries. Maybe that should be #2? Your list of threats is just the current round of scare mongering topics. Noticeably lacking are actual threats, like climate change and the rise of nationalism. And yes, a company that controls as much information (and access to that information) can be very very dangerous.

bovermyer 9y ago

The two examples I gave were not the top two, nor in any particular order. However, they do make a practice of killing people, which Google does not. Also, the elimination of a minor API is hardly a globally-damaging action.