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Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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1783 points zaggynl | 1 comments | 18 May 20 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ddevault ◴[18 May 20 15:27 UTC] No.23223542[source]▶
Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
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virvar ◴[18 May 20 15:39 UTC] No.23223771[source]▶
How do you buy hardware? I’m genuinely asking because where I live it’s impossible to buy stuff that wasn’t made in China.

It’s almost impossible to lead en ethical life in this day and age if you do anything related to tech.

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reaperducer ◴[18 May 20 16:13 UTC] No.23224336[source]▶
It’s almost impossible to lead en ethical life in this day and age if you do anything related to tech.

So the lesson is: Being ethical in one way is hard, so don't bother being ethical in any aspect of your life?

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1. virvar ◴[18 May 20 16:18 UTC] No.23224411[source]▶
Not necessarily, but if you can justify one thing for yourself then it should help you understand why other people behave similarly.

Whether buying hardware or working for google is worse is another debate, but you should be able to see why people can work at google and not necessarily feel guilty about it.