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Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet

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> “You have the team working through a burning crisis of culture in the office. Once again the boss is MIA, and the first communication we get from him is essentially a blackface picture from his vacation? I’m not sure one can get more tone deaf,” a former Jigsaw employee told Motherboard.

It's not black-face, way to erase the rich cultures of Papua New Guinea. This is like people who accuse visitors to Japan of cultural appropriation for wearing kimonos.

This basically sums up Google’s internal activists. They’re culturally ignorant and always on the lookout for new forms of outrage.

The white activists effectively shouted down Chinese employees on the topic of a Chinese Search engine.

Work is work, everything that is not work is not work. We’ve given corporations like google and Facebook near dictatorial powers in the United States. Not only with their own employees but American citizens as well.

Google has demanded total arbitrary adherence not to the idea of don’t be evil, but rather don’t do anything anything that google doesn’t like - with like having no particularly rational basis.

It’s time For corporations to be put back in their place.

While trying to save the internet from censorship, extremists, and hackers[...]

How can you combat censorship and extremist speech at the same time?

By defining anything that you don’t agree with as extemist speech, and deciding that you are the only person who gets to decide what legitimate speech is.

Technology is mechanism; there is no salvation in mechanism.

That would be a phenomenal name for a punk album.

Does have a "Rage Against the Machine" vibe, no?

"No salvation in mechanisms" would also work for an industrial album title.

"google" and "save the internet" are 201X favorite oxymoron.

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