For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”
She could have said nothing and kept quiet like the thousands of other workers at Google, this could not only get her fired but maybe even blacklisted in the industry, that’s far more than you’ve ever done or will ever do to bring attention to this issue, so how about you keep that cynicism in check.
100% will get her fired. 100%. Not now as it’s too connectable to the post she made, but in 6 months, they’ll find a reason to can her that can’t be traced to this.
I recall reading about one senior on the search team who had worked there for over a decade criticizing the changes G keeps making to favor their own interests (ads mostly) saying it degrades search results (he was right too as G has fallen to the same levels of DDG/Bing and Yahoo).
He got shuffled into a dead roll over the course of a year so he could no longer deter the project.
Now that’s a guy who didn’t want to build a bad product. What happens to people who take political stances that could hurt G’s revenue and stock prices? Yeah. She’s toast.
Well she’s been working there since 2005. So she doesn’t need the job. Or money. Or anything. She’s just there.
Maybe you’re the one who should keep the cynicism in check if you think people who have everything they could ever have wanted and have benefited on the evil deeds of their employer to the tune of millions and millions of dollars wouldn’t speak out.
If all the people who disagreed left, there would be no chance of opposition
The opposition comes from us, the consumers who refuse to use Google products.
You can’t change things from the inside. A level 3 software developer isn’t changing what google is doing.
She has more power if she’s been there 20 years, but probably not much.
That may be true, but you know who has less influence than a level 3 software developer working at Google? Someone who doesn’t work at Google :)
I just pulled the levers in the gas chambers! I’m not a bad guy!!!
As if working at Google is remotely close to directly participating in the fucking Holocaust.
I understand your point, but that was insensitive
If you still use Chrome uninstall it now
Google/Alphabet’s previous CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt was best friends with Henry Kissinger.
Aaaaand she’s fired.
Or worse, “accidentally” fell out of the window. Crazy times.
She works at Google, not Yandex.
Though I’m sure Google could manage something equally mysterious.
Like ship her to El Salvador
For a sabbatical, right?
Is that what is happening here?
Gods below
What’s the source of this photo? I saw a different comment mention bodies and a satellite photo, is this what they were referring to?
Literally on Google Maps right now. It’s called Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo.
It’s a Google satellite. That’s what you see on theirs. If you use Apple Maps satellite view, it looks so clean.
It’s America’s concentration camp for undesirables.
Now that they have their own Putin, why not?
Yeah good thing she’s not a Boeing engineer
After 20y of equity I think she’ll be fine (financially).
Project Maven started in 2017. Stop making evil people famous and expecting something will change.
“Dont be evil” was never a promise it always had been a warning to the users.
Ive been using Vivaldi for over 3 years and never been happier plus I don’t have any google account and degoogled my devices.
Vivaldi is closed-source, and it still uses Google’s engine. Good for you for moving away from Google, but you have much better options available to you: FireDragon, Zen, and the rest of the Mozilla browsers.
For me? It’s Qwant and <INSERT FIREFOX FORK>.
The author should have quit long ago. Many employees are complicit.
all* employees
They get paid 500k a year.
Yeah, I get paid 1/10th of that and I could do a lot better - and I used to - but I work for a nonprofit I care about. Greed is a hell of a drug.
IBM : Nazi Party :: Google : IDF
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/235_no_tech_for_apartheid_w_mohammad_khatami__gabi_schubiner
Can’t be many of us who thought the web search engine company would turn into the killbot company.
I got a little suspicious when they stopped using “Don’t be evil”.
At least they didn’t keep up the farce and exaggerate it: “Don’t be evil. Ever. We’re still not evil. Nuh uh, nope.”
Yup, but around the time they came out with Google Desktop I started to wonder what the future held.
Do they feel heartbreak over the millions of dollars in compensation and stock options they’ve collected in those decades? Easy to write piece like this and go back to your comfortable lifestyle and just feel the fuzzy feeling of speaking out about a bad guy.
I’m still glad they wrote the piece.
Nothing is enough for guys that comment on the internet. Maybe they should post comments on lemmy. That’ll show the world.
Absolute monsters, they need to be culled, removed from power and influence.
How about yall start to be the change you want to see in the world and go to gaza and do something
I don’t think providing more meat for the grinder will suddenly make anyone change their minds on the subject.
Fighting on the inrernet has a negligible impact. The alternative is going to gaza.
If they (the rich) dont grind your meat, they can’t have any pudding. How can they have any pudding if they don’t grind your meat?
Don’t you think they could do more good in the USA, since they’re the ones paying for it?
That idea go any further on the something other than “get shot and dragged into a van”?
It’s not the same google.
always has been
