Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad

Re:Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad by makecheck on Sunday November 04, 2018 @06:35PM (#18378672)

When this first came on, I thought: oh, did someone make a new documentary? It was full of nostalgic nice things that Mr. Rogers was known for. It brought back memories.

And then, it ended in the cheapest, most offensive, most un-Mister-Rogers way possible: just a Google ad. I refuse to even let myself recall what crappy product apparently demanded the outright abuse of a man’s lifetime of genuine contributions to society out of some sense of clever advertising.

This feels like a bunch of Google executives just took a can of spray paint to deface everything that Mr. Rogers ever did. And Google, you don’t understand anything about why Mr. Rogers was so great.

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Re:Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad by slowmovintarget on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:11PM (#18378817)

Alphabet removed "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct and then... Kill-bots, military AI, Chinese search engine with built in censoring and key-logging... Why not this, too?

They've cancelled many of these after backlash, but not all of them.

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Re:Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad by Aeolun on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:41PM (#18378942)

“Cancelled”

I don’t believe for a minute that they won’t be renamed and developed by some people they’ve now identified as not giving a shit.

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Re:Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad by feri339 on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:24AM (#18380963)

I doubt it somehow. At least near to mid-term, if it would get out, the reputation damage with the public and much worse the employees would probably be a lot higher than the gains. Alphabet needs to be the most attractive place to work for. Or at least close to it. They live and die by that.

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