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  • Zier@fedia.io
    2·
    22 days ago

    People are shocked when the bad boyfriend (google) that people warned them about, do highly unethical things. That boyfriend only exists to use & abuse you, it has no other purpose anymore.

      • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        This argument irks me as it merely exists to wash the crimes of companies as if they exist on a different plane of existence where morality doesn’t exist and people pretend corporates are not just a bunch of humans in a trench coat trying to commit the crime without doing the time.

        • username_1@programming.devEnglish
          01·
          21 days ago

          Companies are not people. Companies don’t share the moral with you. Crimes and moral are orthogonal at best.

          • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            21 days ago

            Companies are created by and comprised of people. It’s very clear that the concept of a company is meant to extract wealth by immoral means while shielding the owners from accountability and consequences that being a normal citizen cannot afford.