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> Google and all of its employees who make products like this are on the absolute wrong side of history. A few things: 1. It takes a fairly high throne to loo
by jhall1468 8y ago
> Google and all of its employees who make products like this are on the absolute wrong side of history.
A few things:
1. It takes a fairly high throne to look down on people for their employers issues.
2. You assume a great deal about what people are willing to put up with for free services.
I think you're probably going to be wrong. Most people will whore themselves out for convenience because they don't care if they get targeted ads in order to get those free services.
- paulddraper 8y agoThe strongest lesson life has taught me: Never underestimate the power of convenience.
- 013a 8y agoI view it as something governments will eventually step in to fix. It's very convenient to dump toxic waste into rivers. If it weren't for regulation companies would probably still do this. That doesn't make it ok, and it doesn't mean that behaviors like that will always be allowed.
- p2t2p 8y agoYou clearly didn’t read the article. It’s the government website that sent those searches to two advertising and data collecting systems.
- ErikAugust 8y agoFamiliar with the “banality of evil”? Give it a good thought before you give employees a free pass for the behavior of their employers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
- jhall1468 8y agoYes, because targeted advertising is just like playing along with killing hundreds of millions of people. It's almost like a grey area exists here.
- ErikAugust 8y agoMore like there is a wide spectrum of severity. There is no equivalence being inferred here.
- denerio-a 8y agoWRT point 1 - Wait what? You can work for not-not-evil employers now and all the ethical blame is on the CEO? > Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility - Bierce
- jhall1468 8y agoBad or good companies are subjective. My family > your ideals. Sorry man, I'm not going to take a pay cut because of your list of companies that are subjectively bad.
- codyb 8y agoI hate to godwin this thread, but wasn't half the issue people claimed to have with ex nazis was that they never stood up and stopped following orders? Obviously Googlers are not Nazis. I guess the subjective part ends up being where you draw the line.
- jhall1468 8y agoYou aren't the first to do so. That line is an easy one to draw, and the moment you have to bring up Nazi's you're argument doesn't hold water. There's a huge swath of subjectivity between targeted advertising and murdering hundreds of millions of people.
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- ionised 8y ago> and the moment you have to bring up Nazi's you're argument doesn't hold water Not really. You are thoroughly misusing Godwin's law, and Godwin himself stated that he never intended people like yourself to stifle conversation on a subject by chanting his name. Godwin stated that references and comparisons to Hitler or the Nazis are perfectly reasonable in a conversation, as long as the person shows sufficient understanding of history, which the posters you are arguing with seem to have.