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Re:Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid o... by the_jeremy on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:34PM (#23070085)
It seems hard to find an ethical, large tech company. Amazon? Mistreats warehouse workers. Microsoft? Antitrust, baked-in telemetry. Facebook? Privacy, cambridge analytica. Capital One / credit card companies? Profiting off financial illiteracy / people in need. Apple? Anti-competitive app store practices. Google? Ban people with no visible justification or reasoning, no customer support, benefits off lack of privacy for ads. Oracle? Sleazy vendor lock-in. Comcast? Too many to list.
Re:Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid o... by munk-a on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:48PM (#23070322)
If by large tech company you mean one of the largest ten out there then yea - but widen that field a bit and you'll find some good ones.

And, I feel like this is sort of what we get as a society and marketplace that doesn't value ethical or enforce business practices. There is no penalty for acting unethically and there is a profit penalty for acting ethically - so the top performing companies are likely to be those that decided to ignore ethics and pursue the dollar.

Google, for a while, was an exception to this rule by pure luck - they so fully dominated search when it was just becoming a thing you could actually monetize that they had bails of money they could use to operate ethically and at a large scale... but they've since course corrected to be an unethical as anyone else.

Re:Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid o... by pram on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:41PM (#23070204)
To be fair though, if you're working at Oracle or Comcast in particular you're probably not under any delusions about their ethics or morality. ;P
Re:Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid o... by snakeboy on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:04PM (#23071255)
Can't we at least mostly agree that mistreatment of workers is clearly a more tangible bad offense than most of those?
Re:Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid o... by the_jeremy on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:25PM (#23071498)
https://www.newsweek.com/apple-samsung-and-microsoft-linked-...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...

If we're going on "what is the most offensive thing I can point to about a company", it seems like Facebook and most hardware suppliers have that beat.