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| Tactical Nuke:
I think that we should acknowledge the amazing "shooting themselves in the foot" forgetup Google has gotten themselves into. Some rando points out that they're an echo chamber that demonizes certain points of view, then immediately after that the VP of Diversity (a position that should not exist) comes out and demonizes the memo, along with the loving head executive. The memo states how women are more likely to take sick days and were more feelings oriented, and a huge group of female employees, in response, take a sick day because they were feeling threatened by the memo and its author. For Google to trip on itself any further might be the plot of an Oscar-worthy movie (assuming it even gets there, considering the leftist firestorm in Hollywood). |
| Red Spy:
--- Quote from: McZealot on August 09, 2017, 02:58:01 AM ---are you telling me that's impossible? Women are biologically inferior to men when it comes to say--lifting weights--and better when it comes to giving birth--obviously. Those are biological distinctions that exist. Are you telling me it's impossible that women struggle more with technical jobs than men due to something biological? For someone who claims to be so liberal, I'd expect you to actually listen to science and not claim loveism when someone suggests that there might be a biological distinction in the tech industry --- End quote --- --- Quote from: McZealot on August 09, 2017, 03:32:53 AM ---Except he didn't say "women are less intelligent", he said 'distinctions in biology MAY IN PART be responsible for the divide. I don't know if they are or not, I just despise people calling equating a scientific fact (that men and women are biologically different) with loveism. If he had said that he knew exactly what caused it and was wrong I would understand being disgusted (because that'd actually be loveist if he claimed women were inferior when they weren't) but he didn't claim anything, he just proposed a scientific possibility --- End quote --- |
| Verification:
Google is the definition of "Too Big To Fail". A company like google won't fall into obscurity until an alternative pops up, and that's right after google does something really loving bad that offends everyone in some way. This new alternative must support the droves of people who use google, otherwise it'll just die on the spot due to constant downtimes and slowness. |
| Deus Ex:
--- Quote from: Verification on August 09, 2017, 03:54:03 AM ---Google is the definition of "Too Big To Fail". A company like google won't fall into obscurity until an alternative pops up, and that's right after google does something really loving bad that offends everyone in some way. This new alternative must support the droves of people who use google, otherwise it'll just die on the spot due to constant downtimes and slowness. --- End quote --- Yeah, google really doesn't have much competition that could really forget it up. I mean I switched search engines after I found out they were censoring search results, but most people don't give enough of a stuff about that. |
| Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on August 09, 2017, 04:09:33 AM ---Yeah, google really doesn't have much competition that could really forget it up. I mean I switched search engines after I found out they were censoring search results, but most people don't give enough of a stuff about that. --- End quote --- Google has hands-down the most used search engine/indexing service but also collects, stores, and sells a tremendous amount of user data. This includes building a "profile" of you tied to your IP address, or if you're logged in, a Google account. This "profile" includes things you search for and attempts to guess what you like and don't like based on the links you visit and what you tend to look for. It's some pretty creepy stuff, and Google is almost uncontested so far as market share in the search engine/indexing sector. "Google" has literally become synonymous with "search" and there isn't much any competitor could do to threaten them as Google is simply so big with such vast resources that they can basically do whatever they want on the side i.e. play ISP with Google Fiber, make their own streaming TV service, make a mobile OS But for a company whose motto is "do no evil" they have a lot of business practices which are debatably unethical, such as censoring search results to hide information they disagree with, collecting the data of users and selling it, etc |
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