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Re:Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil by kaibee on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:19AM (#21452523)
> (you work at a company that amasses your user's data and uses it in all sorts of morally questionable ways, but where you draw the line is when your employer engages in business dealings with other morally questionable firms? Really?)

I feel like climate change and aggregating user data for ads are... not morally equivalent evils.

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Re:Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil by lliamander on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:10PM (#21454315)
It's about responsibility and effectiveness: voyeur-capitalism is something for which Google and it's employees are more directly responsible for, and one which they might be in a better position to solve (though I suspect the solution may ultimately come from a competitor).

Climate change may be a bigger issue, but that doesn't mean the actions of Google's employees are going to be effective at dealing with that issue.

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