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This is the fact-lite timeline version, but the Google founders all but stepped away as figureheads, "Don't Be Evil" was removed as the company motto, and we di
by washadjeffmad 6y ago
This is the fact-lite timeline version, but the Google founders all but stepped away as figureheads, "Don't Be Evil" was removed as the company motto, and we discovered through various leaks that Google has, in fact, been doing evil by contributing to recognition technology used in authoritarian nationstates, granted government backdoors to its customer data, providing censored versions of the internet to human rights-limited markets, selling data trained from captchas to the DoD for use in drone strikes, becoming a shameless monopoly and flouting antitrust laws worldwide, among more that we likely haven't discovered.
They got big enough to court entire nations and militaries, and so they did. It's the IBM story set in the cloud.