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I can see your post and I'm just some random logged-in user so you're probably fine on the shadowbanning front. AFAICT a lot of posters here are pretty skeptic
by georgemcbay 4y ago
I can see your post and I'm just some random logged-in user so you're probably fine on the shadowbanning front.
AFAICT a lot of posters here are pretty skeptical of contemporary google for all sorts of reasons. I know I am, and my job these days is primarily Android app development. The days of "Don't be Evil" are long over literally and figuratively.
I'm sure there are lots of fine people working at Google, but its a giant company that exists primarily to stuff ads in your face at the highest rate you will tolerate and collect data on you for the same purpose so its not too surprising that there's going to be some ethically dubious goings-on as well and even when you get past that its hard to root for a company that has such a long history of taking well-regarded projects, developed either internally or acquired, and just unceremoniously killing them off right after you start to depend on them.
I have no knowledge of the incident you're talking about but I suspect whatever warning you got was more to do with talking "incessantly" (your words) about the specific issue rather than the issue itself. At a certain point even completely valid complaining can come off as spamming if you force-inject it into any semi-related topic, though I also understand wanting to shout from the rafters when you feel like you've been personally wronged by a large, well-known entity.
- paul7986 4y agoIf curious here is the post re: MIT student who met some of the same folks I did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 It is old news but it's how Silicon Valley works ..every man or woman for themselves and all tech companies I hear incentivize their R&D folks to developers to file patents. I'm sure the tech companies do not care where or how the inventions came from until it would become a PR nightmare. Which Silicon Valley stealing from fledging inventors seems to be stories not worth telling and maybe cause it's textbook stuff.