[Elweth]

Tensions between Google and its employees are reaching a breaking point

For years, Google was seen as the gold standard of office life. The company pushed workplace culture to new frontiers with enviable benefits such as free meals, office slides, onsite childcare and an emphasis on transparency. But Google (GOOG) is quickly developing a very different reputation as it confronts a mounting backlash from its own employees.

Google's internal critics have targeted a growing list of concerns in recent years, ranging from its handling of sexual misconduct allegations to its business dealings with the military. Workers have also questioned Google over a secret project, now shuttered, to develop a search engine built to satisfy China's censorship regime.

"Google just fired 4 of my coworkers for daring to ask the question 'is Google helping separate families or cage children at the border?'" tweeted Amr Gaber, a Google software engineer who has previously organized protests of the company. "After finding openly accessible information, they alerted coworkers of the horrifying news. Yes. Google is working with [US Customs and Border Protection]."

Src: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/26/tech/...index.html?

For years Google had the tagline 'Don't be evil', but it seems like they're turning more and more evil these days.

Do you agree?

[MrMustache]

Google is completely evil IMHO, no privacy with them.

[fidusobe]

No surprise they hold your information hell they even know your location even without your permission just from visiting their search engine by default it already gives them access to your location

[Axe]

Depends on your definition of evil, but I certainly feel they've taken a downturn these recent years. I've myself moved away from a lot of their services, as they generally treat devs like shit, have some of the worst support possible (where it counts), shut down services left and right (rip inbox), and I don't know about you but I don't trust them any more than I'd trust Facebook.
Successful for-profit companies all have the same #1 priority; the bottom line. If being "evil" enhances their bottom line then they'll obviously go that route, Google or not.

[Beyonder]

Money is the root of all evil and google has a shit ton of money, so yes of course they are evil.

[Rsynced]

Money is the root of all evil and google has a Clay Davis ton of money, so yes of course they are evil.

It's "THE LOVE of Money" Not Money itself.

The Bible states:

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

[MavenGradle]

This used to be their motto. They changed their motto ages ago though..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

[Rsynced]

They are just going to run the whole company with AI once the their human workers create it. Catch 22

[pro0]

Yes !

Google is very bad evil!

ite just turn to a " Government's tool " ..

[Miles Morales]

Yes !

Google is very bad evil!

ite just turn to a " Government's tool " ..

Google is more than just a tool.
High tech companies want to take over nations 😅

[pro0]

Google is more than just a tool.
High tech companies want to take over nations 😅

We need to take over Google.

[Miles Morales]

We need to take over Google.

Rushing B on D2 sounds more tricky 👹

[Rsynced]

We need to take over Google.

Just use duckduckgo ;)

[Natas]

Who remembers that bot that turned evil af ?
Was that a google bot ? it started saying crazy ass shit it was AI on twitter or somthing

[TheGoobr]

Google isn't evil, it's just left-wing. Which is basically evil.

It's always been pretty shit though.