Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend
by pm90 on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:02PM
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It would be a total non-issue if they did come out saying that openly though. Probably it started off with Google's "do no evil" motto; I can't think of any tech companies that promoted themselves as a force for social good rather than a pure business. Except maybe Apple under Steve Jobs.
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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend
by humanrebar on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:10PM
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> I can't think of any tech companies that promoted themselves as a force for social good rather than a pure business.
It's actually a trope for SV companies. It was lampooned in season 1 episode 1 of the show Silicon Valley:
> And yes, we're disrupting digital media, but most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility.