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A) The Vice President's condemnations ought to be worn with a badge of pride, B) Google is being fined billions because the EU wants money, not because they've
by diminoten 8y ago
A) The Vice President's condemnations ought to be worn with a badge of pride, B) Google is being fined billions because the EU wants money, not because they've done anything amoral, C) employees protest the actions of their employer all the time (see every single labor dispute ever), D) I don't underestimate anything, I accurately estimate how small of a topic privacy is to everyone outside of Internet forums, E) "several" is hardly a movement; I know "several" people who would be ashamed to work at WHO because of how "under-prepared" they are for a zombie apocalypse, and finally F) your comment absolutely confirms your status in the HN "pretend to be concerned while actually doing nothing and continuing to use/benefit from the very people/organizations you claim to dislike" bubble that you and so many other people on HN seem to live in.
You're not grounded in reality, so your opinions as you've expressed them so far are not even remotely accurate, for the reasons I've listed above, as well as many others. You're going to continue to be surprised and confused about why things happen, and it's not going to get better until you figure out a way to hop off your cloud and come join us in the real world, because here no one gives a shit about Dragonfly (many down here, including at least one Chinese citizen, think it's better to have Google at all), and everyone is laughing at Google for their inability to keep the Pixel 3 under wraps.
- forgottenpass 8y ago>A) The Vice President's condemnations ought to be worn with a badge of pride You hate Pence so much that selling out to totalitarian regimes is worthwhile if it spites him?
- diminoten 8y agoOf course not. You really can't even fathom any possible other meaning behind what I wrote than that?
- forgottenpass 8y ago>You really can't even fathom any possible other meaning behind what I wrote than that? In context, no. But rather than reiterate the last few posts in this thread, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Please explain to me how Googlers should wear Pence's accusation that they're "abetting Beijing’s oppression" with pride.
- diminoten 8y ago> In context, no. Well, that marks you as a dishonest actor. Have a nice day!
- abc-xyz 8y agoWait.. taking the context of your post into consideration makes him a dishonest actor?
- diminoten 8y agoNope! Willful misunderstanding of what I've written makes him a dishonest actor, as it also does you!
- abc-xyz 8y agoHow is it a willful misunderstanding? The only way not to view your statements in a terrible light would be to take everything you said out of context. Your stupidity is astounding.
- abc-xyz 8y agoA) Ah yes, they should take great pride in developing software that will assist the world's most evil and dangerous country rewrite history, spread propaganda and help them imprison and murder citizens who dare to seek change. B) Don't be ridiculous. They're going to be fined for violating people's privacy and engaging in evil behaviour. European companies won't get a free pass. C) I was obviously referring to tech companies, whom in this case happen to be among the best paid in the world. I'd love for you to find a single other instance. D) It's not a small topic among software engineers, especially the brightest ones.. you know, the kind of people Google wish to employ. E) I obviously don't know how every engineer feel. I just know that a significant percentage of the software engineers I've known would never want to work for them. It's difficult to tell to which degree Facebooks downfall can be attributed to the employees they've lost and the people they've failed to attract. F) I am doing something. With regard to privacy I use every opportunity to recommend everyone to use Signal, Firefox, Duckduckgo, NetGuard, Cookie Autodelete extensions, etc.