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[–] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a reason they got rid of that motto.

[–] dan@upvote.au 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They never got rid of it though. I don't understand why people keep repeating this. See the final paragraph here: https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They might as well have though 🙃

[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

don't be evil and if you see something, speak up

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+whistleblower+fired

Oh really Google?

[–] Jummit@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's double speak. The translation is "We are evil and if you say something about what you see, we will silence you.".

[–] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, that's the government's stance also.

[–] Jummit@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you beginning to see things more clearly now?

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 years ago

It helps that the rain has gone

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on your definition of "evil", I guess.

[–] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Lol, right? Bit of a slippery slope over at the ol search and advertising factory.

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They removed it from the main body as like, an organizing principle. and left it in only one sentence at the end. https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago

Sure, that's different to totally removing it though.

[–] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I heard several news stories stating that they had, but I guess that's my fault for believing the news. I just assumed they would get something right eventually.