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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: 0.204s | 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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ravenstine ◴[18 May 20 15:32 UTC] No.23223644[source]▶
It might be easy to say this, but I believe I would quit if I was asked to implement something like that. But perhaps I'd be different if I were paid $300k a year. (I sure hope not, though)
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Lio ◴[18 May 20 16:20 UTC] No.23224448[source]▶
I like to think I’d take the high road but the Milgram shock experiment[1] shows that most people, including me, probably wouldn’t.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

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ravenstine ◴[18 May 20 16:29 UTC] No.23224587[source]▶
Then we need to come up with ways to counteract the Milgram effect, if that's even possible.
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1. Lio ◴[18 May 20 16:41 UTC] No.23224748[source]▶
Yes indeed. It’s one of those spiky problems with human nature.

It ranks up there with the problem of dealing with seductive disinformation.

For everyone pointing out that nothing happened in Moab there’s someone else with a Remember Moab bumpersticker[1].

[1] Neal Stephenson reference.