Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company...
by Maximus9000 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:32PM
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Microsoft is the oldest of them all. Microsoft had its own "teenage years" problems... maybe it has less problems these days because it's more mature?
Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company...
by humanrebar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:56PM
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The article mentioned participating with China in state surveillance and censorship.
Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company...
by jvagner on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:12PM
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Yes, but, they're not taking as much public heat for that as other companies, I would say.
Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company...
by humanrebar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:18PM
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True, if we're talking about PR problems and not just moral and ethical issues, Microsoft seems to be faring relatively well at the moment.
Each of the major FAAMG companies has a political/dominance issue of some kind, one that comes to mind more immediately than all the political issues associated with those companies. Taking a swag at it:
* Facebook: privacy - exploitation (personal data exploitation)
* Amazon: automation
* Apple: privacy - enforced (withholding from gov't)
* Microsoft: [I'm not even sure, they're flying low.. perhaps monopolization, or government backdoors?]
* Google: politicization/curation
I would suggest that Google's the clearest "ideation" company here, where censorship/curation is the most core part of their business model (Facebook is social media, Google is a borg-like machine collection all of the Internet and then putting algorithms around access to it), and most prone to politicization crossing the internal/external cultural barrier. [edit:spelling]