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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: 0.202s | 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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skybrian ◴[18 May 20 15:54 UTC] No.23224027[source]▶
I don't work there anymore, but this is a confused argument born of zealotry. Taking Google's money to work on open source is totally fine. More money spent on good things might even mean less spent on bad things.

For example, nothing good would come from the Go team quitting over unrelated political stuff.

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TechBro8615 ◴[18 May 20 17:26 UTC] No.23225443[source]▶
> nothing good would come from the Go team quitting over unrelated political stuff.

Are you sure about that? It might actually harm google enough that they respond by giving into some demands.

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1. skybrian ◴[18 May 20 18:08 UTC] No.23226141[source]▶
Other than for commercial tool vendors like JetBrains, development tool improvements are rarely business critical in that way.

Go in particular is known for stability. In the short term, descoping or delaying Go releases is unlikely to matter to any business goal. Language and SDK improvements are for improving the ecosystem in the long term.