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google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle (i.redd.it)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think you absolutely should care about the political opinions of the CEO considering it's a private company and the CEO most likely gets to dictate the political leaning of the company. It's not like Twitter turned to shit simply because Musk bought it. It turned to shit because (among other things) Musk made business decisions based on his political opinions.

You could argue you don't need to care because their political opinions aren't influencing their business right now, but don't you think it might be a bit too late to care when the business starts to reflect the politics of the CEO? For example if tomorrow Trumps wants to know the contents of your email and the CEO decides to appease Trump you might start to care about the political h

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I will cross that road when there is a good reason to do that. I simply won't switch just because of someone's opinions that don't affect me. I don't have time for that shit.