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This is a tough one, Google is walking into a semantic quagmire - how do you differentiate "business of war" from "protecting our troops/homeland". You are goin
by sremani 9y ago
This is a tough one, Google is walking into a semantic quagmire - how do you differentiate "business of war" from "protecting our troops/homeland". You are going to piss of one half of the country at least by even engaging in this debate.
The only Silicon Valley figure that would have veered out of this almost unscathed would have been Steve Jobs.
- tazjin 9y agoWhile Google is technically an American company, US citizens make up a minority of their user base. How do you define "homeland" here? What if Google's foreign subsidiaries participate in project "Maven" in some way? This doesn't seem "tough" to me at all.
- drivingmenuts 9y agoThat's because Jobs built computers, not computers for the military, just computers. If they did wind up being used by the military, it was incidental, not because they were purpose-built for that. Like Tim Cook, he wouldn't have let himself be in that position.