Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by CoolGuySteve on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:34AM (#20686202)

Yes and no, some of the projects mentioned in the article, like Project Dragonfly, involved developing the kind of censorship tools necessary to prop up dictators like the ones you mentioned.

That’s not whining imo, that’s standing up to exactly the breed of ‘True Evil’ you define here.

We have seen this before in tech: Nazi Germany was probably IBM’s second largest customer at the time. There is a moral imperative to not let something like that happen again.

We should all be disturbed that the executive team at Google felt that Project Dragonfly was appropriate.

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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by RestlessMind on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:24PM (#20690868)

So by that logic, US and like minded allies should ban their industries from working with China / Russia / Middle Eastern dictatorships? Are you advocating for complete trade barriers?

If not, why single out Google when Apple / Walmart / ... are allowed to benefit from Chinese market?

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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by andonisus on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:07AM (#20686542)

My opinion is that someone is going to be providing that service, so it might as well be me (better the devil you know than the devil you don't).

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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by komali2 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:54PM (#20690130)

Exactly the reasoning used by arms dealers.

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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by andonisus on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:14AM (#20715963)

The world is not absolute. It would be nice to be able to take an absolutist, moral stance against things I disagree with. But as I get older, I realize that one must be able to compromise and see in shades of grey.

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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by komali2 on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:39PM (#20718212)

Compromise is important, and one doesn't need to go the way of the Sith, but giving in on your morals is pretty much what leads to problems in this world.

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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by andonisus on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:54PM (#20721157)

I agree! But also being able to compromise so that you still can wield influence is important. For example, if an American company (such as Google) does not fill the need for this service for China, that leaves the door open for other countries to fill this void -- countries which America might not want to be furnishing this service.

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