[HN Gopher] Google Wants to Work with The Pentagon Again, Despit...
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Google Wants to Work with The Pentagon Again, Despite Employee
Concerns
Author : Jerry2
Score : 8 points
Date : 2021-11-03 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (nytimes.blog)
(TXT) w3m dump (nytimes.blog)
| sneak wrote:
| Once again, we are reminded that most everyone who cared about
| "don't be evil" is gone or powerless now.
|
| I watched a video yesterday where Schmidt said he thought it was
| a joke.
| adminscoffee wrote:
| it's super sad to see a business sell out this hard. it's
| almost like the end of their empire is unfolding in front of us
| sneak wrote:
| In the USA, you either become big enough to replace the
| military, or you simply start working for them.
| AlexAndScripts wrote:
| Is the defense industry evil? There wouldn't be a western,
| democratic world without it. It also indirectly advances
| technology.
|
| The Internet was a defence project.
| gbhjnkthrow wrote:
| > There wouldn't be a western, democratic world without it.
|
| Citation _very_ much needed. That 's an extremely narrow view
| of history (and many of the 'villains' on the global stage
| were responding to threats by the western, democratic world.)
|
| > The Internet was a defence project.
|
| The internet was an inevitability, but did receive defense
| funding and support. It is not fundamentally _necessarily_ a
| defense project.
| aetherane wrote:
| Is everyone who works in the defense industry then evil? I
| don't get why tech companies are special in this regard.
| sneak wrote:
| Yes, coordinated conspiracy to commit mass murder definitely
| falls under "evil" in my morality.
|
| Let's not forget that "defense" is itself a euphemism.
| There's nothing defensive about the USA's global drone
| assassination program.
| adminscoffee wrote:
| google has to be working with the ccp to do business in china,
| would this be a conflict of interest/national security issue for
| either nation or no?
| liveoneggs wrote:
| is this website real? (nytimes.blog) it is registered on
| namecheap, hosted behind cloudflare, whois doesn't match
| nytimes.com, is running wordpress with an off-the-shelf theme,
| etc
| lelandfe wrote:
| Good catch. This looks like a scam. Even running a fake
| Twitter: https://twitter.com/nytimesblog/
|
| Here's the original
| https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/technology/google-pentago...
| dmitrygr wrote:
| All the language buttons on to link to the real NYT website
| except "US" which links to this blog. Sure looks fishy...
| bluecalm wrote:
| Social media ethics:
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| Work with important government department - can't have that!
|
| Work with the most ridiculously inefficient, scam enabling, dirty
| and pointless tech ever invented: "yup, excited about
| transforming the world".
| [deleted]
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