Final Fancast 🎙️🐸 @finalfancast.com · 29/05/2026"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 070 0
Daz @beepbeepster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Gotta 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 020 0
Piratedan7 @piratedan7.bsky.social · 29/05/2026kind 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. 040 0
Abbott and Costello meet Jenny Dracenstein @kingriptor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I'm sure it's fine they did that 000 0
🎵🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻💜Momrsly💜 @momrsly.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If the motto was their only holdback...... 000 0
David William Sheridan @dwsheridan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026When you remove a “Don‘t be evil” corporate motto, it’s the same—perceptually—as keeping the motto and just removing the “Don’t”. 000 0
DaSpookyPittoo (Aqua)🏳️⚧️ @dabluepittoo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026*Insert Star Wars Prequel reference here* 010 0
necromaunzer.bsky.social @necromaunzer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Oh? I thought they just removed the "Don't" part. 020 0
Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 29/05/20261/9 The fundamental crisis of the 21st century is corporate citizenship. The legal fiction that a balance sheet has the same rights as a living, breathing human. To see exactly how this machine operates, we have to look at its ultimate PR lie, Google's "Don't be evil." 🧵 142 0
Kelly Leak @leathersap.bsky.social · 30/05/2026"Am I Evil?" is Metallica's motto, "yes I am" is the answer. 000 0
Rock Mountain @smeent.bsky.social · 29/05/2026"We've earned sufficient trust to begin abusing it" 0121 0
Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 29/05/2026"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. 020 0
Jonas @rasherdk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Worth 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. 000 0
Daniel "Blue" Commissions Open! @bluewolfd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Now 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. 010 0
the herpderpingest @theherpderpingest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026static.klipy.comMitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies SketchAlt: A gif from a That Mitchell And Webb Look sketch, in which David Mitchell asks "Are we the baddies?" while wearing a uniform evocative of a certain fascist regime. 1250 0
N.I. (Natural Intelligence) @larslardblob.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We live in a cyberpunk dystopia without the cool shit! 000 0
❌️👑VOTE EARLY; No Kings👑❌️ @areukiddingmern.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Oh, that's just cuz Google is evil. Profits over truth Profits over people Profits over integrity Hey, Google: Stop being evil. 000 0
jlillyreed.bsky.social @jlillyreed.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Context on why this is the focus right now? 200 0
a Legion of Rats 🐀 🤍💜🖤 🎃 @mousegirlslice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Like an even more on the nose version of mr beast removing "slavery free" from his chocolate bar website. 060 0
Friendly Neighborhood Murdercat @shanzival.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Unfortunately, they only removed one part of it, not all of it 000 0
actualjimlynch.bsky.social @actualjimlynch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Maybe there were good developers who happened to be evil, and Google didn’t want to lose them to Meta. 000 0
Ceejay @ceejaynw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026They've done a ton of evil since they started taking military contracts. They're part of a mega corporation now so the only thing they will do, is more evil in the pursuit of greater money, power and control. We're all deers in headlights watching the worse threats from SciFi realized in our time! 031 0
🏴☠️ 🅢🅐🅘🅝🅣🅗🅔🅛🅛 🏴☠️ @752963e64.bsky.social · 29/05/2026It's wargame... every piece of technology has its own story about "why" things are like it. It's untold / secret 000 0
The Very Concept of ">:3" @thesillycollective.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I feel like its important to note that this was around the time they were contracted by the DOD to test their Deepthink Neural Net bot on combat drones They also fired a bunch of original staff for arguing against it 1330 0
emilycdbham.bsky.social @emilycdbham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Who here thinks they should have tattooed it to their faces instead of you know getting rid of 000 0
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Brin 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. 010 0
⠀ @successfuladdress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026 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 000 0
Varsha Pai @varshapai.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Yeah, 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. 000 0
dwolfalpha.bsky.social @dwolfalpha.bsky.social · 29/05/2026"Evil is bad that believes it's good." 000 0
🦋Izzy💜⁷~Moon🌕Joy~🍉 @mowsyling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Alt 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. 000 0
Susan Wilhite 📡 @getresilient.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Don't Be Evil was the Wi-Fi password on the employee shuttle busses, but you had to know how it is typed out. 030 0
Zhukov @zhukov3543523.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Great 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. 010 0
troy farah @troyfarah.bsky.social · 29/05/2026it'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 orgweb.archive.orgGoogle Investor Relations 121617 0
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026bsky.app/profile/anni...maybe: annie rauwerda@annierau.bsky.social"why use google?" webpage from 1999 5931110 0
Jesper Larsson @avadeaux.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Has Wikimedia foundation now also receded from not being evil? bsky.app/profile/phir...jenny (phire)@phirephoenix.comWikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...medium.comBig Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for WikipediaTLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire… 053 0
Banda Bassotti @orpach.neocities.org · 29/05/2026They took "Carbon neutral since 2007.🍃" off their homepage about two years ago too. I think it says something different now. 0522 0
Liquidthex @liquidthex.com · 30/05/2026But then China called and Google was like "You have HOW many people with internet access in your country???" 000 0
Taylor Lynch (TheBlazingDracogriff) @blazindracogriff.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026*Insert animal farm reference here* 011 0
Rachel Jade 🏳️⚧️ @racheljade70.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Imagining the board room meeting when they decided to get rid of it makes me laugh in a morbid way 1550 0
Jeannie K @jeanniek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Zuck had them change it so they could proliferate evil without going against corporate policy. 000 0
youburn.bsky.social @youburn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Does 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'. 000 0
🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026floored by how this was almost exactly when i stopped enjoying google products 1751 0
Maxxie Bytes @maxxiebytes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026static.klipy.comThe Bad Guys Villains on NetflixALT: The Bad Guys Villains on Netflix 010 0
Rachael the Spicy Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Although, tbf, that motto stands up when you're a small, quirky startup doing something no one has heard of. When you're a household name, suddenly it becomes problematic because it's vague language that cannot be legally enforced, nor is it a promise to take specific ethics actions or follow rules. 000 0
Onyx @onyxblanc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I 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 040 0
muirisog.bsky.social @muirisog.bsky.social · 29/05/2026It was never a Code of Conduct for them to live by. It was always a warning to the rest of us. Why? Remember, their other slogan was "Google goes Everywhere". 000 0
Andee Harry @andeeharry1.bsky.social · 29/05/2026thanks for the reminder, it is a wild thing that happened 000 0
Luigi in a Coal Mine @weareluigi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Read, “Enshitification” by Cory Doctorow if you want to understand what’s happening. 020 0
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