Just remember IBM helped the nazis in Germany by producing a punch card system to track and exterminate Jews.
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
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It's the wrong side, isn't it? 😮💨
Edit: Of course it is.
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
Happy 1984! /s
Happy 1939
1984 had some resistance, while we have absolutely none of that
That's not true at all. Some of the biggest protests in US history have happened as a result of this shit. People are fucking with ICE operations and courts are throwing out charges against those protestors on a daily basis.
And there's a growing resistance building among current and former military members, but they're keeping quiet about it because it's really fucking stupid to make your resistance plans public knowledge.
It might not be happening fast enough for your liking, but the resistance is absolutely there.
That already happened when people willingly paid for telescreens to spy on them.
Glad I chose to never use Google products years ago
Funny how you know, ICE isn't going after the CEO of Microsoft or the CEO of Google, you know. I guess if you're stupidly rich, you're immune from deportation.
The CEO of Google ought to be ashamed.
Is the side money? I bet it's money.
I can't wait until I can walk out. It's become an absolutely miserable company to work for. They used to be so much better.
Did the remove the slides? I bet they removed the slides.
Google was all about producing products people were excited about, from search that was useful to improving browsers and email and setting standards, they even started Let's Encrypt which makes the web safer every day. They've contributed so much positive technology, and they were eager to try new things that inspired alternatives even as Google killed their own implementation.
Then they focused on cloud and found huge investments from Nazi regimes, they removed "don't be evil", and became evil.
It wasn't just the fun perks at the office, googlers used to be excited about the work they do. Now they get fired for expressing concern about producing products for Nazis.
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~~Don't be evil~~
Do the right thing (for shareholders)
Can I use Signal on GrapheneOS?
Yes. I run Signal on Graphene.
Yes, i See no reason why this shouldnt work, even without Google services installed it should work (but notifcations dont work properly, for that you could consider Molly and their unifiedPush implementation)
Although I use Molly myself and it's quite great, I never had issues with Signal's notifications on GrapheneOS, LineageOS, or CalyxOS.. Definitely stick with Molly, if you can!
Yes, and for added security, you could sign into Signal through Molly, for example
And that's why I've switched to LineageOS with microg
Who knew that one of the subscription billionaires would do exactly what everyone thought?
Is this surprising to anyone??
considering the CIA and the NSA funded google originally, when they were first starting up, is this any surprise?
News to me. Why were they doing this?
no idea really, but i'd imagine they saw the benefits of a company knowing everything, that they could mine. That's probably why.
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They're a for-profit corporation. They will support whatever makes them money. There are no good or bad for-profit corporations. They only do exactly what they were designed to do. That being said, their employees and shareholders DO have a choice, and CAN be held responsible.
oh huh I wonder what side
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anonymous.vemosiceapp&hl=en_US
I'm a bit confused, the article says Apple took the app down but this one is available on play?
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