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Not that I'm taking side on this Google fiasco but distance is not an excuse in these days of distributed workspace and multi-national corporations. If distanc
by ww520 15y ago
Not that I'm taking side on this Google fiasco but distance is not an excuse in these days of distributed workspace and multi-national corporations. If distance is an acceptable excuse, BP didn't have to take responsibility for the oil spill happened in the Mexico Gulf since it's an ocean away in a different continent.
- chc 15y agoYou seem to have taken my comment out of context. I didn't say distance excuses anything, just that it presents logistical challenges. The comment I was replying to suggested that Google had to have known, so I was explaining that, no, the higher-ups at Google very well might not have had a clue. This does not appear to have been a major campaign of great strategic importance to the company, it didn't involve a lot of people and it wasn't anomalously using any resources, so I have no trouble believing that it simply slipped under the radar. You might say that was negligence on Google's part, but I don't think you can call it malice.