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Re:The ties between Silicon Valley and the military run deep by rumcajz on Saturday June 09, 2018 @04:01AM (#17272038)
It's nice that in addition to the compulsory Google-bashing this article explicitly points out the other companies involved. Specifically, it mentions Amazon and Microsoft who did much less yet ethics-wise than Google did and yet are rarely called out in the press.

Anyone working for Amazon or Microsoft here? Is this just a skewed press coverage? Or is there any dissent going on there?

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Re:The ties between Silicon Valley and the military run deep by adventured on Saturday June 09, 2018 @04:37AM (#17272113)
Microsoft and Amazon are both less liberal cultures than Google. Microsoft particularly historically has skewed much closer to centrist politically, in its culture, business operations and ideology.

Microsoft is more like old IBM in that regard, which makes sense given how old its cultural foundation is (dating to the 1970s) and its history of working with more conservative old-line enterprise businesses. As are Oracle, Cisco, Intel, etc. All will very happily serve the military industrial complex. You won't find any serious dissent in Redmond.

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