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hagbard_ctoday at 2:01 PM1 replyview on HN

The censorship, the injection of government-approved standpoints, the shadow-banning, the organised campaigns to throttle dissenting voices and more similar activities. This all happened under the Biden regime with nary a peep from the media and those who pointed it out were labelled and called names. Then Trump returned and 'Big Tech' just followed along but this time around they're called out for being shills to the orange man.


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the_aftoday at 3:01 PM

The criticism of Google and their abandoning of their "Don't Be Evil" motto has been a constant here since before Trump's first term. There's no correlation with Dems being in government.

If anything, what Google (and Meta, etc) show during Trump is how hypocritical their "values" were at their core. When it paid them to pursue carbon neutral policies, and being seen as "inclusive" or whatever, being seen as against violence, they did so. Now that those in power are against all of that, it pays to quietly or not so quietly abandon those policies. They can do this because they were never their core values, they were just convenient for business at the time.