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What say you, Sundar?

"dang I wonder why they removed that original motto" they wondered textually into a social media platform reply field knowing full well why their evil asses would do such a thing

Gotta wonder which exact individual had to go into the file and make the change itself, having to delete that specific excerpt before uploading the update

Maybe evil.

kind of sad to earn all of that goodwill and to just sell it on the cheap. Wondering if we'll ever get radical enough to outlaw boards of directors and kill off the means that these perpetually rich asshats use to enshittify every company that they can.

If the motto was their only holdback......

When you remove a “Don‘t be evil” corporate motto, it’s the same—perceptually—as keeping the motto and just removing the “Don’t”.

*Insert Star Wars Prequel reference here*

Oh? I thought they just removed the "Don't" part.

I was also thinking about those recently

4/ But a corporation has no empathy or conscience. By design, it is a legal machine built solely to maximize short term shareholder value. A vague moral phrase can't change that. Legally, if "not being evil" gets in the way of profit, profit wins every single time.

"Am I Evil?" is Metallica's motto, "yes I am" is the answer.

"We've earned sufficient trust to begin abusing it"

And yet Melania keeps going with Be Best

This account needs alt text in its life

"Don't be evil." This begs the question: Is any megacorporation guaranteed to consider the lives of their customers? And more: Are they required to consider the lives of their employees? They rob and poison their customers. They enslave their employees.

Worth noting that it was, at least at that time, moved to the end of the text - as a sort of summary - rather than removed fully.

Now they just cant help themselves. "They say that money corrupts you, but I cant really tell. I've got the whole world at my feet and I think its pretty swell!" Al Yankovic.

Fuckin classic

*laughs in former Fitbit user*

Well, now I understand

We live in a cyberpunk dystopia without the cool shit!

Oh, that's just cuz Google is evil. Profits over truth Profits over people Profits over integrity Hey, Google: Stop being evil.

this says a lot abt the company itself

Like an even more on the nose version of mr beast removing "slavery free" from his chocolate bar website.

Unfortunately, they only removed one part of it, not all of it

Maybe there were good developers who happened to be evil, and Google didn’t want to lose them to Meta.

This aged like milk.

It's wargame... every piece of technology has its own story about "why" things are like it. It's untold / secret

Yeppers, thats how Deepthought was born They then gutted the whole algo that was leaps and bounds ahead of all other Learning Machines and shoved its bits inside Gemini

Por lo que sea...

Americans sealed their fate in 2016 lmaooooo

Yeah. We noticed.

oh how the tables have turned

... permitting them to then pursue evil with abandon.

Who here thinks they should have tattooed it to their faces instead of you know getting rid of

Brin and Page also published a document stating in plain terms that if a search engine carried advertising it would have an unavoidable conflict of interests to display results that made it most money rather than results that responded most helpfully to the individual’s question. And, here we are.

interesting how they 100% knew what they became, if ur convinced and truly believe that ur not doing something wrong and "evil" u won't remove something like that

Yeah, and Paul Buchheit definitely gives off the vibe that he could be an evil tech billionaire if he tried to be, he’s a total Elon simp, I’m guessing he’s just content being multi millionaire.

Former ☹️

What happened..

"Evil is bad that believes it's good."

& I just thought they set up Alphabet to get around it

about when things turned.

Skynet move

Alt for pic: Don't be evil "Don't be evil" was Google's former motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct. In 2018, Google removed the original motto from the preface of its code of conduct.

They only removed the "Don't" part.

Great example of how under a system controlled by the profit motive, any laws, constitutions, holy books, morals, mottos, guidelines, reforms and slogans are worth nothing and will be scrapped out eventually in the benefit of said profit.

it's really worth visiting Google's code of conduct page as it was back in 2005: web.archive.org/web/20050204... The same URL now redirects to a page on investor earnings. investor.google.com/conduct.html no wonder billionaires hate archive dot org

boy how the turn tables...

web.archive.org/web/20250604... This obsolete description of how it used to be possible to tell ads apart from results was online until last year.

Now every search gives two or three “promoted” results before anything else.

An utterly contrived and BS backstory written in a strategic communications war room... bsky.app/profile/aste...

🚬 sigh

It being difficult to remove was predicated on the idea that removing it would make people think Google was evil now. Doesn't matter when everyone already thinks that!

"Enshitified" is really glaringly missing on that list there...

"But you know Evil... is an exact science being carefully correctly _wrong_." - Shriekback, "Nemesis", 1985

"do be do be do ba do be do be do ba" — Perry, 2007

Has Wikimedia foundation now also receded from not being evil? bsky.app/profile/phir...

It was a canary statement...

They took "Carbon neutral since 2007.🍃" off their homepage about two years ago too. I think it says something different now.

But then China called and Google was like "You have HOW many people with internet access in your country???"

*Insert animal farm reference here*

Imagining the board room meeting when they decided to get rid of it makes me laugh in a morbid way

Google decided to be evil

Does everyone also hate Google now? Thought they were the company that gives away most of its products for free. As someone else commented, they changed the wording to 'do the right thing'.

Being evil is the critical step for enshitified products. Screw the user, now that we control 70% of the market let's milk every dollar we can out of our monopoly!

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The depths of Google.

I distinctly remember when this was at its peak in the early 2000s and thinking that "maybe Hoogle is one of the good ones" Now I don't even use Google anymore, and instead use @duckduckgo.com since you can turn off the AI bullshit

thanks for the reminder, it is a wild thing that happened

Read, “Enshitification” by Cory Doctorow if you want to understand what’s happening.