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Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)
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[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

It's what is known as a canary statement. Taken from when miners used to take canaries into the mines so that the bird would die first if there was toxic gas.

If the canary is dead, something is wrong. Google had it in their mission statement to not do bad things, then that was quietly removed. The canary is dead.