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by mankash666 2940 days ago
But Google wants to be a defense contractor and the employees are emotionally blackmailing it from not being one.

If those employees had a fucking conscience, they wouldn't slice and dice every online interaction of a user and serve ads. Stop pretending to be on a moral high-ground by refusing to serve the very entity tasked with securing YOU and the nation

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You think it's irreconcilable for an individual to be okay with farming data, but not with indirectly killing people?

Everybody has a slightly different moral compass. Every "good" person does "bad" things.

I highly doubt, for instance, that everyone who commits check fraud would be okay with murder; I also doubt every murderer would be okay with committing check fraud.

>>> "but not with indirectly killing people?"

I'm absolutely not OK killing (innocent) people, and clearly, the pentagon isn't too. The aim of the program is to increase accuracy to prevent and minimize collateral damage.

If you truly cared about protecting the lives of innocent, you'd support this program.

> refusing to serve the very entity tasked with securing YOU and the nation

Google is refusing to support the militias? Given so many companies are supporting the military, google not supporting the militias does seem pretty negligent in securing us and our rights.