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Absolutely. So long as the employees who run it believe in upholding that benevolence themselves.

Disclaimer: I'm a current TAM with AWS.

As Snowden says, tech workers are complicit in how their companies hurt society: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqx8q/snowden-tech-worke...

If that's true, then so are those that invest in big tech companies.

Absolutely. The material interests of the shareholders ultimately drive the decisions that these companies make. If you invest in them, you are complicit.

The real problem is "hurting society" is a bullshit charge which lets you call yourself a hero for making Socrates poison himself.

The sophistry is all brain-hacking bullshit best dealt with like a poisoned drink - thrown in the face of the server.

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