[marcantonio]

"Many of us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind, including its previous position on Chinese censorship and surveillance, and an understanding that Google was a company willing to place its values above its profits."

When has it ever put values above profits? Google is selling our data to everyone. What values?

[rock_hard]

Just like Facebook, Google is NOT selling anyone’s data!

What they are selling is the ability to run targeted ads based on that data. But the data never leaves Google!

[adtac]

What do you think sold data is used for? If the end product is the same, the ethics of the medium doesn't matter.

[mtw]

Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil", until Oct 2015. They were generally doing the good things.

I'm not sure Google has any values right now, unless somebody corrects me.

[kyrra]

To quote Google's code of conduct as it exists today:

> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

Media headlines from the time gave the impression that it was removed, which was absolutely false.

[mtw]

Between 2015 and April 2018, it was in the preface.

In April 2018, it was moved from the preface/beginning to the last end of code of conduct.

If it was really important to the company, there's no reason to push it towards the bottom, where most people would miss it.