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A comment on Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media. Parent comment

Re:Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media by whatshisface on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:27AM (#31310624)
You have got to make some finer distinctions for what is or isn't evil than "the cloud." All you will accomplish with overbroad strokes is convincing people that ethical distinctions do not actually exist. As for what the distinctions actually are, for a start, how about products that harm parties which have not agreed to anything?
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Re:Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media by aporetics on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:26PM (#31317895)
Ah. I wasn’t calling the cloud evil, I was showing that working in the cloud poses some difficult questions about how to identify the meaning of the work. It would be easy to defer such a task. (But what would it mean to spend your life working in such a way that the meaning of your work is always up to someone else?)

I was pretty clear in locating the root of evil in thoughtlessness.

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