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> This is historically revisionist. Google was a money-making behemoth with its tentacles in many areas of innovation before it became the politicized entity we
by joshuamorton 7y ago
> This is historically revisionist. Google was a money-making behemoth with its tentacles in many areas of innovation before it became the politicized entity we know it to be today.
This is also historically revisionist. Google's been super political since forever, it just wasn't in the news for it.
- thu2111 7y agoReally? Googler 2006-2014. I can't say I remember much politics during that time. The closest it got was Eric Schmidt having close relationships with Washington. That and the China thing but even there, Google was in China with a censored search engine up until they went and hacked the firm. I don't remember much discussion of the fact that we had a Chinese version of the search engine. What are you thinking of? I look at it like this. My friends who still work there complain about stupid idpol all the time now. I never heard complaints like that when I was there.