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Why does the media keep repeating his employer's name? It has nothing to do with his activism.
by silverlake 16y ago
Why does the media keep repeating his employer's name? It has nothing to do with his activism.
- Dramatize 16y agoMaybe starting a revolution was part of his 20% time?
- martythemaniak 16y agoActually it does, in so far as people like him are likely to be very common in Google compared to other places.
- ajju 16y agoI have a lot of respect for Google and perhaps I am just misunderstanding your point. Are you trying to say "People brave enough to face battalions of armed police while protesting against a totalitarian regime are very common in Google"? I hope that is the case but it would be hard to provide objective proof of that. I think there is another, better justification for naming Google in this story and that is - they risked acting against their self interest by creating the call-to-tweet tool for the protesters in Egypt. It used to be accepted practice for corporations to 'stay out' of foreign issues that don't directly impact them and Google had the cojones to side-step accepted practice in favor of what is right. Then again, Twitter and Facebook have taken similar actions in the past. This is not to minimize the positive contributions these companies made, but it is not the same as facing armed police at great personal risk.
- hyperbovine 16y agoLego cubicles and chair massages do not a revolution make.
- gms 16y agoHe would not have made it into the media in the first place were it not for the Google angle.