Sam_Bass ,

Was a time long ago when googles ethics tenet involved doing no evil.

iAvicenna ,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

they go wherever there is more money

Flax_vert ,

Didn't they refuse to do this in China?

Anticorp ,

Back when they had a shred of ethics left. But then they decided they like money more than their motto, changed their motto, and yielded to China.

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

Boycott google!

petrescatraian ,
@petrescatraian@libranet.de avatar

@LaFinlandia Damn, I hope this is just in Russia at least...

We do need decentralized platforms to avoid this, but managing them by the said outlets might prove too hard for them...

jabathekek , (edited )
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

I bet their reasoning is they don't want to get involved in local "politics" but the idiots don't realize they were involved as soon as they started hosting there. Really what they're doing right now is promoting fascism and helping to prop up putin's regime by ensuring conscript dodging information isn't shared. Fucking bastards.

sukhmel ,

Google has not responded to the enquiries, but has not blocked anything either back then

But this time they did. I would speculate they blocked human rights content in return for the promise of YouTube not being blocked in Russia. I would expect YouTube to be blocked anyway, sooner or later

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Further validation for me to never pay for stupid premium. Fuck Google

sub_ubi ,

They need a clear warning like this for all countries

psvrh ,
@psvrh@lemmy.ca avatar

"Do no evil" really never had a chance, did it?

disguy_ovahea ,

Following Google’s restructure as a subsidiary of Alphabet, “Don’t be evil” was removed as their motto in 2018.

Mongostein ,

They were literally like, “Fuck that. Let’s do evil.”

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Good: Less money now, maybe better long term reputation and more sustainable business.

Evil: More money now, better quarterly report this quarter. Who gives a fuck about the long term.

The choice was obvious from the start. Sigh...

Mongostein ,

Money sucks.

Zacryon ,

People suck.
Removing money doesn't stop people from being assholes.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Then again, greed and power definitely corrupts people. But if you mean all people have that potential, then yea.

Anticorp ,

Pure Evil: more money now, and all the money later from crushing competition and taking over the government

Anticorp ,

Ironically it aligned pretty closely with changing their decision to not engage in this very behavior in China.

Mango ,

We keep saying that, but it's always "Waaaaahhh self hosting is so hard! I don't wanna pay for my audience's bandwidth! I need the YouTube algorithm for promotion!"

Fuckin babies thinking they deserve to be hailed as content creator entrepreneurs.

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