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My conjecture is that Google just pretended to stand for freedom, when they were a smaller company and they needed goodwill to be able to build an empire. Now t
by DeathArrow 3y ago
My conjecture is that Google just pretended to stand for freedom, when they were a smaller company and they needed goodwill to be able to build an empire. Now they don't need that goodwill anymore.
- nness 3y agoThe freedom Google stood for was also a trend of the time — tech start-ups were trying to break out in the burgeoning internet against established giants — and naturally the companies ideologies reflected that rebellion against the norm. They a few billion dollars later and you realise that morality and stakeholder profits can never be aligned...