Thousands of Google staff protest
dimanche 11 novembre 2018 à 01:00Thousands of Google staff demand the company respect the rights of employees that make accusations of sexual harassment.
I support this cause, but since the victims of this particular wrong are limited to Google's workers, I think that Google's injustices to its users (nonfree software, surveillance and tracking, soon perhaps censorship in China) are overridingly bigger wrongs.
The "solutions" Google promotes for surveillance and tracking, which include "transparency" ("We tell you roughly how much we track people for the state") and "security" ("We protect your data from some sorts of misuse by parties other than Google and the state"), are fundamentally inadequate. And Google does not even recognize nonfree software as an injustice, whether in web pages or in phones, and nearly all Google products and services offer no way to escape nonfree software except the one I use: reject them.
What Google needs to do, to avoid injustice to its users, is stop collecting data about individuals, stop asking users to run nonfree software, and refuse to censor for China or any other state.