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google
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Originally a web search company. Megacorporation with a surveillance
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capitalist business model. Provides material support for drone wars
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and internet censorship in China. Approves of gentrification.
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Google are the new evil empire, replacing Microsoft as the number
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one source of concentrated evil within corporate computing.
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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Hackers generally avoid Google products, particularly due to their
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extensive privacy issues and proprietary nature. It's common to
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hear hackers describe themselves as being "degoogled" or in the
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process if "degoogling" (i.e. removing themselves from
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participation in Google systems).
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In its early history in the 2000s Google was loved by hackers,
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and even hired some Free Software people. Over time though the
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company engaged increasingly in practices which were
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antithetical to hacker ethics.
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