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> I now trust Google to wiretap my communications in any and all countries with surveillance programs. Let's not focus anger at the wrong people. USgov is to b
by smtddr 13y ago
> I now trust Google to wiretap my communications in any and all countries with surveillance programs.
Let's not focus anger at the wrong people. USgov is to blame for that stuff, not Google. Google is an American company and at the end of the day, they _must_ adhere to the law, right? I personally don't care if they fight the law, or obey it immediately. I only care that the law was made in the first place and which groups of people made the law. No point debating what a company should/shouldn't/did/didn't do in the face of an unfair law.
Focus should be on the flaw in the system that allowed the law to be created to begin with.
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- onli 13y agoAn individual or a corporation is not only to be judged by the laws that are applied. It is also judged by the laws above those laws, like human rights. Someone violating those laws can by prosecuted, and in every case, they can be judged on an ethical level. If a company bows to laws that are unethical, that lead to the possibility of a huge surveillance regime occupying the world, it is perfectly sound to focus also on the people complying and not only on the people making the laws. There is always another option.
- VikingCoder 13y ago> If a company bows to laws that are unethical, None of you people have ever listed another alternative for them, that is based on anything but fantasy.
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- ceol 13y agoI think some of the anger might come from the fact that any normal person, or any normal group of people, don't have the clout to influence those kinds of laws — Google does. However, they chose to bow to those laws (and charge the government for the privilege.) If Google, the one company tech enthusiasts would trust to be on their side, doesn't want to change those laws, what chance do you think any of us have?
- VikingCoder 13y agoPlease provide one shred of evidence for your belief that Google doesn't want to change those laws.
- miomyosky 13y agoWhen a dictator comes to power he does so and remains in power because of the support of the people around them. Wrongs are perpetuated and maintained all in the name of 'laws'.