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[–] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago (6 children)

"Do no evil^1^"

^1^ unless we can make money from it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

There's a reason that doesn't appear on their site or in their docs any more. It was a canary clause.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Any organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Very overtly and loudly claiming a quality which should be self-evident in oneself, one's company or one's nation invariably means it's not really there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"People's Democratic Republic"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"The Greatest Democracy In The World" - Lots of US politicians, including those activelly engaged in gerrymandering and passing vote supression laws.

The dictum, supposedly from Einstein, about only the universe and human stupidity being infinite, needs to be ammended to include hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The country with the most Freedom™*

*Freedom™ must be redeemed in Freedom™ tokens; sufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to trample others' Freedom™; insufficient Freedom™ tokens entitles you to die in the gutter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think they changed it didn't they?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it's "do the right thing" now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

For the shareholders

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ahh, much more leeway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Right - "Do no evil" uhhh... Is that not your default setting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Not anymore: they ditched it for "do the right thing (for my wallet)" a couple years back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean... "evil" is arbitrary, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not arbitrary enough that they thought they could keep saying it. They ditched that about a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"It's evil not to make as much money as possible", Google founders. C-suite and board, probably.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I feel like there's scales of evil here Google starts to need to highlight on a whiteboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Actually, their slogan was "Don't be evil." But they revised it recently by adding a comma after the first word.