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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by titzer on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:25AM (#15415223)
I work for Google. I am not going to be "ashamed of myself," but I am also not into drinking the Koolaid.

It's an oversimplification to demonize groups in this way. What is more troubling is the (non)reaction of society to the vast encroachment on privacy and rights from all sides, not the least of which are governments, telecommunication companies, and advertisers.

Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by cisanti on Friday October 06, 2017 @08:31PM (#15421522)
But you should. It's obvious you're privileged enough to change jobs once you have worked for them but you won't, because you don't want to take responsibility of knowingly playing part of the evils and histories biggest and most dangerous spying system.
Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by titzer on Monday October 09, 2017 @08:58AM (#15433405)
You actually don't know what my job is, and you can't be sure that my presence here doesn't actually slow the growth of "histories[sic] biggest and most dangerous spying system."