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Ever since the PRISM revelations, I feel uneasy whenever I see "Google" in the headlines. Even if it's just a harmless doodle, I'm reminded of their partnership
by znowi 13y ago
Ever since the PRISM revelations, I feel uneasy whenever I see "Google" in the headlines. Even if it's just a harmless doodle, I'm reminded of their partnership with NSA.
- ender7 13y agoSigh. Google does not have a "partnership" with the NSA. They give the NSA data when they are required to do so by law. The problem is the law, which should be changed.
- cryptoz 13y agoIt doesn't work that way. "The government told me to do it" is an excuse that died with the Nazis during the Nuremberg trails. As a civilization, humanity has generally agreed that doing something evil because you were told to do it by the "law" is not even close to an okay excuse.
- edias 13y agoAnd you can't see a difference between genocide and sharing some user data? Everyday I read something along the lines of "Google has an ethical responsibility to do X" and it's getting tiresome. It's absurd to demand a company to jeopardize its entire business because you don't agree with the morality of the law in question.
- vectorpush 13y agoGodwin's law fulfilled. The difference is that you voluntarily offered google your data; those who were enslaved and slaughtered like animals by proxies of the state couldn't simply subsist under the duckduckgo regime instead. If this were a matter of true evil instead of obscene hyperbole then people would actually stop using google instead of apathetically sojourning into your figurative google gas chamber.
- xuim21 13y agoIncorrect. The evidence shows Google provided NSA with a permanent back door into their services without the required legal authority. Might I ask if you work for Google?
- xuim21 13y agoAgreed, anyone with ethics has long since boycotted every Google service and won't be taken in by Doodles.
- laureny 13y agoYou must be a lot of fun at parties.