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When this first came on, I thought: oh, did someone make a new documentary? It was full of nostalgic nice things that Mr. Rogers was known for. It brought bac
by makecheck 8y ago
When this first came on, I thought: oh, did someone make a new documentary? It was full of nostalgic nice things that Mr. Rogers was known for. It brought back memories.
And then, it ended in the cheapest, most offensive, most un-Mister-Rogers way possible: just a Google ad. I refuse to even let myself recall what crappy product apparently demanded the outright abuse of a man’s lifetime of genuine contributions to society out of some sense of clever advertising.
This feels like a bunch of Google executives just took a can of spray paint to deface everything that Mr. Rogers ever did. And Google, you don’t understand anything about why Mr. Rogers was so great.
- slowmovintarget 8y agoAlphabet removed "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct and then... Kill-bots, military AI, Chinese search engine with built in censoring and key-logging... Why not this, too? They've cancelled many of these after backlash, but not all of them.
- Aeolun 8y ago“Cancelled” I don’t believe for a minute that they won’t be renamed and developed by some people they’ve now identified as not giving a shit.
- feri339 8y agoI doubt it somehow. At least near to mid-term, if it would get out, the reputation damage with the public and much worse the employees would probably be a lot higher than the gains. Alphabet needs to be the most attractive place to work for. Or at least close to it. They live and die by that.