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Can’t fool me, they gave it away when they removed “Don’t be evil” from their motto back in 2015.
Lol, how simplistic do you have to be to believe this means anything? First off, you need to believe in good and evil, which are completely arbitrary. And do you think they thought "hmm, we need to start doing evil things do extract more profit... Change the motto so everybody knows! But then we'll pretend to not be evil when confronted about this change..."
Maybe being evil would be to not change the motto and start doing evil acts anyway. Simpler answer is that somebody probably thought it was a stupid thing to have on there in the first place, and was likely thought up by a Cheeto stained LOTR neckbeard.
"Good and evil are arbitrary" mfers when I chop off their balls and feed them to their kids because I wanted to:
They started deemphasizing the motto when they became a conglomerate in 2015, and removed it completely in 2018 after employees started getting fired for criticizing Google’s shady dealings with the Customs and Border Protection Agency.
Essentially, the employees argued that Google including “don’t be evil” in their contracts made them ethically obligated to speak up against bad behavior, and they didn’t actually want that. So it appears Google did indeed have a definition of “evil,” and when forced to choose between changing their practice or their definition, they chose the latter.
Y’all I found the bad guy
Spoken like a guy who wants to avoid getting in trouble for being a bad person
Google seems a great fit for you
We should've seen it coming; I just realized I've never heard "ogle" used in a positive way, and it's what the company name is literally commanding us to do. Hindsight is 20/20.
So what you're saying is that driving a rusty nail through your eyeball into your brain isn't evil at all, and totally fine to do?