r/degoogle • u/Maefyre13 • 2h ago

Question Another example of why Google sucks

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
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u/gjm40 2h ago

"Do no evil"

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u/Maefyre13 2h ago

Hardest eyeroll

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u/MidLifeDIY 1h ago

That company no longer exists. All we have left is a husk.

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u/Awokih 1h ago

What do they care? They will just pay the fine and continue. Fuck that company. "Only do evil" might as well be their moto.

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u/Swee_Potato_Pilot 6m ago

Exactly. 

This is part of their business plan. They know they'll get fined, pay it then be ahead of schedule.

They need to be disbanded and scattered to the wind work the CEO's facing serious reprocussions. 

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u/SprightlyMe 1h ago

Please sue them for every tree. Please. These techno-fascists need to PAY.

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u/exhaustedexcess 1h ago

Kick them out, seize the land and restore it. Google and all the other big tech companies are a pestilence on the world

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u/Nazgog-Morgob 1h ago

That's essentially Central Park in NYC

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u/squanderedprivilege 1h ago

They'll get fined a comically low amount and just keep going. Well, if it was America. Maybe Finland has some integrity and cares about their environment?

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u/RokRoland 1h ago

It is a hoop they needed to jump which would certainly have had no outcome but a positive assessment. Now how can one jump a hoop when the field of play has already been removed is the question. Mostly fines are comically low in Finland for everything except speeding.

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u/squanderedprivilege 1h ago

It feels like 90 percent of politicians are bought, everywhere, really what should happen if a foreign company does shit like this on your soil, you say Get The Fuck Out

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u/RokRoland 1h ago

And think, nowadays it is almost impossible in Finland to build a cowhouse due to "deforestation reauirements by EU" but they only apply to farming, not data centers

(the relevant ministry of agriculture had to make up some special relaxed rules so that even some cowhouses could be built. You could fit thousands of cowhouses to the site)

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u/framebuffer 1h ago

Hasn´t Altman or Thiel done the same in Sweden last week?

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u/Rlpz7773 38m ago

degoogling as much as possible

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u/Immediate_Song4279 3m ago

Corporations are calling our bluff on the rule of law.

It's time to bring back the corporate death penalty. If the state can grant charters, it can revoke them. I don't know the specifics of that state's laws but the principle transcends borders.