Re:A Greener Google
by franciscop on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:48AM
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This is a parody site as it says on the very bottom:
> This site is not sponsored by or supported in any way by Google. It is a parody site protected as "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. If you work for the legal department of Google, and you believe your brand is being negatively affected by an announcement that you would want to halt the climate emergency, please email [email protected].
IMHO it's a bit over the top; https://amazondating.co/ for example is obviously a parody and still achieves its objective great. This google site is not obvious at all, only a tiny notice with low contrast says it is on the bottom.
> This site is not sponsored by or supported in any way by Google. It is a parody site protected as "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. If you work for the legal department of Google, and you believe your brand is being negatively affected by an announcement that you would want to halt the climate emergency, please email [email protected].
"Zero contracts with fossil fuel companies" presumably covers GCP...
Does that mean hundreds of thousands of oil company employees will receive "access denied" when they try to log into their email this morning?
If so, that scares me - My industry isn't oil, but I don't want my service provider pulling the rug out from under me with zero notice based on it being 'good PR' to do so...
> This site is not sponsored by or supported in any way by Google. It is a parody site protected as "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. If you work for the legal department of Google, and you believe your brand is being negatively affected by an announcement that you would want to halt the climate emergency, please email [email protected].
IMHO it's a bit over the top; https://amazondating.co/ for example is obviously a parody and still achieves its objective great. This google site is not obvious at all, only a tiny notice with low contrast says it is on the bottom.
https://medium.com/@googworkersac/google-workers-are-strikin...
[edit]: they got me good with their "In lieu of our normal April Fools’ joke, today we’re getting serious"
The custom domain name + Google branding has the feel of a Yes Men[0] project designed to shame Google into doing the right thing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
Edit: Very tiny print at the bottom:
> This site is not sponsored by or supported in any way by Google. It is a parody site protected as "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. If you work for the legal department of Google, and you believe your brand is being negatively affected by an announcement that you would want to halt the climate emergency, please email [email protected].
Can you explain why? What makes them vile?
The website also has some bugs, including a useless search bar and an inactive menu bar.
I would not put too much faith in this being real.
Does that mean hundreds of thousands of oil company employees will receive "access denied" when they try to log into their email this morning?
If so, that scares me - My industry isn't oil, but I don't want my service provider pulling the rug out from under me with zero notice based on it being 'good PR' to do so...