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No, why would it be? All those people working for Facebook, Google all the other companies abusing our privacy are making a ton of money and we're all paying th
by blub 7y ago
No, why would it be? All those people working for Facebook, Google all the other companies abusing our privacy are making a ton of money and we're all paying the costs.
Why should we tolerate that? They are worthy of contempt.
- jimmaswell 7y agoIt's totally unreasonable to expect people to uproot their lives to protest web services that don't even honestly do anything that bad. Are you certain your company never does anything questionable? You better quit and go live on a commune just to be safe.
- blub 7y agoIf a company's expecting to be fined 5 billion dollars, it's pretty certain that it did something bad. And I don't think that one would have to uproot their lives, just quit and find another job. I hear there's a very strong market for FAANG engineers...
- izacus 7y agoThere are people on this very website who have vehemently defended software that decides whether some person needs to be killed with a missile from a drone. That have defended and encouraged companies like Google to help military kill foreigners, countrymen and countrywomen of many people visiting this site. And AMP, a restricted web standard, is that's "worth of contempt"? Please, please, take a step back and think of it for a moment.