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Is outing someone against their will and possibly ruining their life merely "somewhat dickish"? http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outed-me/ http://www.zdnet.
by msandford 11y ago
Is outing someone against their will and possibly ruining their life merely "somewhat dickish"?
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outed-me/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outed-me/
I'm not saying that annoying people by forcing G+/YT integration is evil. But presuming that an annoyance to you is an annoyance to all is faulty.
- skj 11y agoThere's a line to be drawn between "don't be evil" and "don't do evil". With such a huge organization, things slip through the cracks and accidents happen that result in bad things. But I find it hard to believe that Google decided to out someone.
- pjc50 11y agoThey were warned about the negative consequences of identity conflation, then built a system that did just that. They didn't "decide" to out someone, but they built a machine for outing people.
- LLWM 11y agoNo. It's not google's fault people are bigots.
- jellicle 11y agoThis is like saying "it's not my fault that trains have a lot of mass and kinetic energy", after you are warned against pushing people in front of them and do it anyway.
- LLWM 11y agoNot even close. Trains would be quite useless if they did not have a lot of mass and kinetic energy. People should already strive to not be bigots regardless of what google does or doesn't do.
- wstrange 11y agoThis seems to be a problem with all social networks. Why is Google being singled out here?