←back to thread

Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

(support.google.com)
1783 points zaggynl | 1 comments | 18 May 20 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.252s | source
Show context
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.
replies(30): >>23223599 #>>23223644 #>>23223678 #>>23223691 #>>23223692 #>>23223698 #>>23223717 #>>23223748 #>>23223771 #>>23223776 #>>23223779 #>>23223805 #>>23223873 #>>23223923 #>>23223946 #>>23223948 #>>23223951 #>>23223984 #>>23224027 #>>23224165 #>>23224204 #>>23224226 #>>23224276 #>>23224278 #>>23224408 #>>23225345 #>>23225509 #>>23225665 #>>23225802 #>>23229128 #
yashap ◴[18 May 20 16:07 UTC] No.23224226[source]▶
I’m not a Google employee, but really all companies of large enough size care only about the bottom line. Large companies don’t have morals, they just try to make money at all costs, full stop. Google is a bit more hypocritical in that they pretend to be about more than this, but lots of companies are similarly hypocritical, especially tech companies. It’s really only small businesses that have any sort of humanity (sometimes).

Google pay better than most, and if you’re on the right team I assume you get to work on very interesting/challenging projects. They’re just as heartless/selfish as any other bigco, but I don’t know that they’re worse.

replies(1): >>23224519 #
ddevault ◴[18 May 20 16:25 UTC] No.23224519[source]▶
The answer to this is collective action.
replies(3): >>23224777 #>>23224926 #>>23225957 #
1. khawkins ◴[18 May 20 16:53 UTC] No.23224926[source]▶
The fundamental problem is that there is collective action on both sides of the issue. There are plenty of people organizing for the removal of "hate speech", and there are plenty of people organizing for free speech. It's not exactly clear which side is economical since you're not going to make both sides happy.

Tech giants have picked the winners and I'm pretty convinced they've picked sides based on their personal convictions. They're removing hate speech because they think they're on the right side of history, not because they think it will make them the most money.