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Re:Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it send... by ntsplnkv2 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:29PM (#25459972)
And Snowden's job was to keep the US government's spy systems working. So what?

Just because it's their "job" doesn't make it right or not worthy of whistleblowing.

If companies are doing bad things we want whistleblowers to tell us. I just don't understand your argument - "you can do bad things if it's your job." No. It doesn't work that way.

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Re:Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it send... by cbozeman on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:20PM (#25462697)
Yes, you can do bad things if its your job.

You can't do illegal things. Difference.

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Re:Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it send... by ntsplnkv2 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:55PM (#25463639)
If your point was to be purposefully obtuse and present a strawman, why bother?

Either way if we didn't have whistleblowers for very bad things that weren't illegal, we would never make laws to make them as such.

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