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Former Google Exec Says He Was Forced Out For Opposing Company’s Pivot To Evil
A onetime top Google executive, former head of international relations Ross LaJeunesse, is now publicly alleging that the company abandoned its “Don’t be evil” ethos because it was more interested in chasing “bigger profits and an even higher stock price.”
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Sundar Pichai Tells Congress Google Has ‘No Plans’ To Launch Censored Search In China ‘Right Now’
Today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing was a clown show — accurately predicted by Minority Leader Nadler as focusing mainly on the outgoing Republican majority’s apoplectic rage towards imaginary conservative bias on Alphabet’s platforms, and largely a rehash of the browbeating doled out to Twitter and Facebook earlier in the year.
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Google Employees Demand Company Kill Censored Chinese Search Product
Googlers have, over the past few months, been fighting for a louder voice and greater self-determination within a company that’s increasingly gone astray of its bare-minimum unofficial motto, “don’t be evil”—and more often than not, they’re winning. But there’s still one big fly in the ointment.
