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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: 0.2s | 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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ajconway ◴[18 May 20 15:50 UTC] No.23223951[source]▶
How do you justify being a citizen of your country? (not sure what country that is, but most of them have done bad things in the past). It's possible to be a part of a large organization and not agree with its every action.
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ddevault ◴[18 May 20 16:11 UTC] No.23224283[source]▶
I have much less mobility as a US citizen to move to another country than I have as a software engineer. Almost any Google employee could have an offer somewhere else within 3 weeks of starting their search.
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1. ajconway ◴[18 May 20 16:34 UTC] No.23224660[source]▶
As a US citizen you are entitled to so many things that most people out there could only dream of.

That's not the point though. Google is so large that it's just weird to talk about the morality of its employees in the context of the company's decisions.