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A number of soylentils have written in to let us know that Google is opening up the possibility of being evil by eliminating it from their code of conduct. You've been warned.
"Don't be Evil" Starting to Disappear From Google's Code of Conduct
Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct
Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase "don't be evil." But that's over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.
[...] The updated version of Google's code of conduct still retains one reference to the company's unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: "And remember... don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right – speak up!"
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Google to eliminate the "don't be evil"
According to Gizmodo, Google will remove it's "Don't Be Evil" from its code of conduct.
Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase "don't be evil." But that's over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.
"Don't be evil" has been part of the company's corporate code of conduct since 2000. When Google was reorganized under a new parent company, Alphabet, in 2015, Alphabet assumed a slightly adjusted version of the motto, "do the right thing." However, Google retained its original "don't be evil" language until the past several weeks. The phrase has been deeply incorporated into Google's company culture—so much so that a version of the phrase has served as the wifi password on the shuttles that Google uses to ferry its employees to its Mountain View headquarters, sources told Gizmodo.
Based on TFA, I think I would venture a guess that the new WiFi password is "be evil" ?
Previously I wasn't confused. Google wasn't evil, because they said they weren't evil. And they wouldn't lie because they are not evil. I know they are not evil, because they say so, and they wouldn't lie about it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 21 2018, @01:32AM (21 children)
Redundant "the".
And, yeah, they're very little like me up at Google. They lurve them some censorship, collectivism, bigotry, and treating those who contribute to their sites as slaves rather than a community of which they are only a small part.
If you want to know the truth of an ideology, look to the actions of the people who claim it. I have zero fear of a libertarian ever losing out to a progressive in a contest of goodness given how the champions of each conduct themselves.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 21 2018, @02:26AM (5 children)
They're the same fucking hipsters you see everywhere.
For example, During a bout of Simpsons Trivia we saw at a local bar recently, there were girls who wore glasses that had no corrective index: in other words, fake hipsters. Rich kids with fake glasses who are jacking up our property costs.
Fuck Them
(Score: 5, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Monday May 21 2018, @03:06AM
who wore glasses that had no corrective index
fake views!
lol
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @03:16AM (1 child)
And pray tell how do you know they were fake? They let yiu get within 20'???
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @11:37AM
20' = 20 feet
20" = 20 inch
both are reasonable distances for a sideways glance and tell if the lens is skewed.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday May 21 2018, @03:30AM
Let me guess... there were two of them and you were past half into the bottle of tequila, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 21 2018, @04:52AM
Her sister told me Thant she did that so she would appear intelligent
It must have worked: she married some stick up his ass old money
They're divorced now
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:40AM (14 children)
considering most of the libertarians here are *literal actual* neo-nazis (ironically) , i doubt that bet would go well for you
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by khallow on Monday May 21 2018, @05:16AM (7 children)
If you're so ideologically confused that you mistaken libertarians for neo-nazis, then you need to get a better class of ideology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @05:37AM (2 children)
Your disagreement has just triggered the snowflake, and it must now retreat to a safe space echo chamber that has been purged of all wrong-think.
Your words of dissent have now outed you as an Alt-Right-Nazi-Misogynist-Racist-Fascist-Islamophobe®. Please report in to Social Justice Re-Education camp at 9:00 am for your mandatory
lobotomytraining.(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @01:40PM (1 child)
>Alt-Right-Nazi-Misogynist-Racist-Fascist-Islamophobe
all but two of these are actually called for.
Can you even guess which ones ? (or did you copy-paste your retort like a good little boy)
Also: i find it hilarious that someone who, judging the proverbial hill you choose to die on, is a National Socialist (at at the very least one of their scumbag sympathizers too cowardly to step forward and claim the identity themselves) chooses to paraphrases a Socialist's book on what will go _wrong_ if fascists OR socialists get in power.
You just don't *get* how much of an imbecile you guys make yourself look every time you pull that stunt. (and it is _stale_ as well, copy some NEW talking points off of 4chan, will you? )
Fucking love it you incel cucks.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by khallow on Tuesday May 22 2018, @01:07AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @08:17AM (3 children)
Reading comprehension, your Achilles heel!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 21 2018, @02:33PM (2 children)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 22 2018, @12:15AM (1 child)
I believe khallow has been insulted! He is in no way a Nazi, except for the fact that certain races seem to not be able to budget or entreprenerate, or become rich. And he is not someone who argues in good faith, instead he is an argument dispenser, kind of like those machines you see in some men's rooms that dispense prophylactics. And his arguments, like the products from the other machine, usually entail someone getting screwed.
I try to disperse khallow's dispensing as soon as it emerges, and they I hit the "money return" button as quick as possible, so that some times I get my 2-bits back.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 22 2018, @12:59AM
I fear you are correct. What has the internet become that random people on the internet now insult other random people on the internet?
Ok.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 21 2018, @10:31AM (5 children)
Yeah, um, Nazis were and are recognized as having an overabundance of desire to control their fellow man. Ditto modern progressives and to a lesser extent conservatives. That's kind of the opposite of what libertarians are known for. Thanks for playing You Don't Have a Clue though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @01:31PM (4 children)
You failed to notice the words "ironically", i see. (ironically?)
>That's kind of the opposite of what libertarians are known for.
Actually, *no*. I was referring to the people HERE and their ACTUAL behavior and pointed out the (ironic) hypocricy. Not some theoretical Spooner-light entity that doesn't exist in real life.
I suspect you 're not actually stupid enough to miss that, and as a moderator know full well the bile some people post here.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 21 2018, @01:50PM (2 children)
Sorry, I don't speak hipster.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @02:13PM (1 child)
Ok, so you ignored it on purpose. got it.
So you know full well the overlap between (people who claim to be) libertarians and nazis *on this site*
Perhaps (you wrongfully?) consider yourself one. ... of either .... or both ?
And apparently to be hipster is to make argument-based logical assertions. That, i admit, is news to me.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 21 2018, @02:32PM
Point one out to me so I know what you're talking about. Either I've utterly missed them or we have a very different definition of what a Nazi is. See, I see Nazis as authoritarian, collectivist fuckwads (which they were). This fits most progressives and a fair chunk of conservatives perfectly. It is the exact opposite of what libertarian means though. Libertarians are by definition anti-authoritarian individualists. By all means, if you see one engaged in actual demographic-based bigotry, feel free to call them out as holding a collectivist (bigotry is by definition collectivist) belief in direct contradiction with their stated ideals.
No, being a hipster means you abuse the fuck out of the word "irony" to the point that it doesn't remotely fit its meaning in English, among many other things.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 21 2018, @02:39PM
And you failed to provide a reason why we should care about the alleged "failure". I think here the only failure is a failure to communicate.
Which is relevant if that hypocrisy exists and irrelevant if it doesn't. If words in themselves were reality, things would look a lot different today.
That's an awful lot of bullshit to dump just because you added the word "ironically" to a previous post. Don't quit your day job.