>Organized workers at the company forced executives to drop Project Maven, the company’s artificial-intelligence program with the Pentagon, and Project Dragonfl

>Organized workers at the company forced executives to drop Project Maven, the company’s artificial-intelligence program with the Pentagon, and Project Dragonfly, its plan to launch a censored search engine in China. It's expected but annoying that they'd advertise this. We've already seen that googlers' voiced ethics aren't humanitarian, just against the things bad enough to make them personally uncomfortable. And a union is explicitly for the benefit of it's members, not humanity writ large. They're going to continue happily building the world's largest private surveillance system. The most honest googlers I know are the ones that will admit they're just there for the money and have real issues with google's dealings. I doubt we'll get that level of candor from their union. The union will be for everything that makes money but doesn't get google bad publicity (just like google itself).