• @Got_Bent
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    1910 months ago

    The comments on that video. Yikes.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      3310 months ago

      “AKSCHUALLY they were technically Cognizant employees on a limited contract so everything’s fine” - random asshole or paid Google lickspittle

      • @Got_Bent
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        1810 months ago

        We really have become a society that thrives on the suffering of others almost to the point of sexual pleasure. It’s truly repugnant.

      • Zagorath
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        1410 months ago

        or paid Google lickspittle

        Almost zero chance it’s that. They don’t need to pay people to do it when they know people are more than willing to do it for free due to a lifetime of capitalist indoctrination.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          810 months ago

          They may not need to, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t. There seems to be an inverse relationship between wealth and skin thickness, which would make that of Google translucent…

          • @Got_Bent
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            910 months ago

            It only makes sense.

            When you’re poor and not powerful, you get shit on daily and you grow a certain impervious callous to the constant assaults.

            When you’re rich and powerful, nobody ever tells you no, so the slightest of criticism is entirely strange and foreign and therefore unacceptable.

          • Zagorath
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            310 months ago

            Eh, I think the consequences if they got caught out doing this would far outweigh the tiny benefits they get from it. Not to mention how incredibly easy it would be to get caught.

            Compare to other levers they could pull, like a small change in the YouTube algorithm to favour anti-union content. Which would have a far more wide-reaching impact, and would be far harder to prove causation.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              410 months ago

              consequences if they got caught out doing this

              You mean like when Amazon was caught doing it and there was a couple days of memes and then nothing? I think Google could weather that breeze…

              As for that other lever, I’m pretty sure they’ve pulled it many times already 🤷