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It 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 g
by cryptoz 13y ago
It 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.