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by RetroTechie 924 days ago
Exactly. It's not a faceless corporation or say, its IT systems doing good or evil. It's the (groups of) people running that corporation & wielding its resources as tools.

That said: what systems you encounter & how they behave, may tell you something about the ethics of the people that put them in place.

As a consequence: if corporation / system / product behaves 'evil', don't direct your anger at those. Instead, direct your anger (or praise!) at the people who created & manage them.

For convenience, "company Y did Z" remains a valid phrase. As long as you're aware that "company Y" is just a placeholder meaning "people working for company Y".