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Do you hate Google THAT much that nothing matters if they are hurt? Google has seriously damaged its brand in the past decade. People feel very strongly that G
by onion2k 5y ago
Do you hate Google THAT much that nothing matters if they are hurt?
Google has seriously damaged its brand in the past decade. People feel very strongly that Google's invasions of everyone's privacy, their erosion of internet freedom, and their blatant tax avoidance warrants significant punishment. It's not surprising that governments around the world are starting to see Google (and other SV companies) as a form of piggy bank that they can tap for funds occasionally. It's both lucrative and a vote winner.
- topicseed 5y agoBesides HN and similar small tech-conscious circles, I've never heard anybody complain about Google's privacy practices or Apple's walled garden.
- onion2k 5y agoYou should try to get out more then.
- gruez 5y agoOr maybe you should? Going by comments on hn or reddit, you'd think that everybody thinks that amazon was a horrible company (eg. poor treatment of workers, fakes/counterfeits problem, fake reviews, monopolization), yet the surveys show that most people have favorable views of the company[1]. [1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2021-harrispoll-juneusapoll.pdf#page=15 https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2021-harrispoll-juneusa...
- onion2k 5y agoWhat I love about surveys like that one is that 2% of the 2006 people asked said they've never heard of the U.S Military.
- gruez 5y agoexplained by this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...