Don't be evil? Google funding a slew of right-wing groups

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/04/dont-be-evil-google-funding-a-slew-of-right-wing-groups/

by itg • 13 years ago

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DoctorZeus• 13 years ago

The market selects for amorality; the structure of corporate governance (especially with publicly traded companies) ensures that everything hinting otherwise is really just particularly effective PR.

jhspaybar2• 13 years ago

Really? It's evil to fund "right wing groups"? Grow up. People you disagree with != evil.

wffurr• 13 years ago

> The policies advocated by some of the Google’s grantees are in stark contrast with the progressive image that Google has worked to promote.

Hypocrisy is evil.

boards2x2• 13 years ago

Yes. Most of the time, or every-time when it comes to the evil Koch brothers. Think closing down health care clinics providing services for women, just as a start.

There are many other "grassroots" activities they've invented and which are known and documented. Scared to think what we don't yet know.

They're evil. They are the right in the US these days.

jhspaybar2• 13 years ago

This reply very well sums up the pure insanity of our political system today and seems to prove through example my original comment.

duncan_bayne3• 13 years ago

But funding the left isn't evil?

LeeHunter2• 13 years ago

Correct. And I should add that what is considered the "left" in the US is what most of the rest of the world considers slightly right of center. The US right, virulently opposed to environmental regulation, basic human rights (e.g. universal health care, a woman's right to control her body), and favoring low taxes for the rich etc is "evil".

duncan_bayne3• 13 years ago

Funding the left is every bit as evil as funding the right. Someone once observed that the left wants to control your wallet, and the right your bedroom.

The behaviour of the 'right' in using lethal force to prevent people obtaining abortions is every bit as immoral as the 'left' using lethal force to ensure that people pay for other people's healthcare.

The only moral alternative is to eliminate coercion from all dealings between people, and the only framework I've seen that might have a hope in hell of doing so is anarcho-capitalism.

Don't be evil? Google funding a slew of right-wing groups

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