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Google is on the Wrong Side of History
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/goog #Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DontBeEvil #EFF
Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically about AI applications involving (1) weapons, (2) surveillance, (3) technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” and

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Google is on the Wrong Side of HistoryGoogle continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would not...

Kind of knew this was coming. They have even shadow-deleted many of the negative reviews (the reviewer may be able to see their own negative review, but it is hidden from everyone else). I know my negative review was.

#Google #DontBeEvil #JustFollowingOrders #censorship #trump #fascism

bbc.com/news/articles/crlky380

www.bbc.comGoogle Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticismIt controversially updated the Gulf's name for US users after President Trump ordered it to be changed.
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Das freut mich natürlich besonders, dass du den post gefavt hast, als #srf Datenjournalist!

Bei der Gelegenheit auch Danke für die Cookiefalle...

( News Plus Hintergründe: Die Cookiefalle 1/4: Der Pakt mit dem Werbeteufel: download-media.srf.ch/world/au)

... Ich habe viel gelernt und finde ihr leistet da viel wertvolle Vermittlungsarbeit in dem ihr die technischen Themen so runterbrecht.

Wenn wir aber schon dabei sind: Auch bei dieser Produktion habe ich mich gefragt, warum open source keine Rolle spielt, und zwar vor allem im #wastun Kapitel. Dieses fand ich extrem unbefriedigend, da es, abgesehen von ein paar Handy Einstellungen bei euch ja so ein bisschen darauf hinausläuft, dass man einem Anbieter halt vertraut oder nicht. Das ist dann in etwa so wie googles #DontBeEvil aus den 0er jahren ;)
Dass man Apps durch open source alternativen ersetzen kann, die die eigenen Daten nicht verkaufen, dass es dafür auf android mit #fdroid sogar einen eigenen App Store gibt wäre zumindest eine Erwähnung wert gewesen. Für die die nicht auf proprietäre Apps verzichten wollen, gibt es immerhin den #aurorastore , der auf den Google Playstore zugreift (wenn gewünscht anonym), aber zu jeder App eine Analyse der enthaltenen Tracker bietet... (von iPhones habe ich keine Ahnung)

#opensource #ommistakes

@jnsmd

@fsfe @digiges @adfichter@journa.host @adfichter@chaos.social

Google search on fentanyl coming from Canada regurgitates White House & CBP propaganda about fentanyl – DuckDuckGo shows news articles providing information to the contrary.

Google Maps has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America"

Black History Month, Pride Month, and several other cultural and reconciliation events have been removed from Google Calendar.

Looks like "Don't Be Evil" has been replaced with "Lick the Boots, Kiss the Ring".
#Google #DontBeEvil #Facism #USPolitics #canPoli

Goog took away its early days motto "Don't Be Evil" - which was indeed an odd idea, imagined by the students who founded it, for the ultracapitalist surveillance company that it soon became. Now it looks they don't care anymore, or rather they find it acceptable doing evil. These days the media announced that they changed their policy saying they will collborate indeed in military -evil? - technologies. Again it is believed they were of course doing it since years ago, vg in Palestine. The sign of the times among the broligarchy! The California ideology turned into the Trumpistan ideology.
#DontBeEvil

#KenThompson is a pioneer of computer science. He worked at #BellLabs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original #Unix #OS with #DennisRitchie. As a recipient of the Turing award, he is considered to be one of the greatest computer #programmers of all time.

Since 2006, he co-developed the #Go language at the #DARPA funded company that dropped their claim #dontbeevil later.

1943, February 4th he was born. So this #SVG #vector #portrait might be a late #birthday gift of #digitalART and a reminder of his impact on the work of most #computer #YOUsers.

#HappyBirthday and #ThankYouKen Namaste

"#Google's parent company [is] lifting a longstanding ban on [using #AI] for developing #weapons and #surveillance tools…#Alphabet [is] dropping a section [of its written guidelines] which previously ruled out applications that were 'likely to cause #harm'."
bbc.com/news/articles/cy081nqx

"Google defended the change, arguing that businesses and democratic governments needed to work together on AI that 'supports national security'."

Which democratic governments, exactly?

BBC News · Google ending AI arms ban incredibly concerning, campaigners say - BBC NewsThe tech giant previously ruled out applications that were "likely to cause harm".
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@Tutanota Would like to support Firefox but unfortunately it's too energy inefficient and slow on a modern Android Flag ship in comparison to chromium based browsers.

Also I do not tolerate Mozillas choice of mass dismissals rather than lowering the work duration across all workers. It's an evil capitalist strategy ruining lifes while the others shall work harder to not be fired next when money is tight.

Remember #DontBeEvil