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Google settles shareholder lawsuit, will spend $500M on being less evil
(arstechnica.com)
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I guess that’s good. But it feels like slapping a bandaid on an amputated leg. Like in the grand scheme of things it won’t change anything to do with the most evil stuff google does (surveillance capitalism).
Yeah it seems to merely be a business decision, less about a conscience and more about avoiding losing more anti-trust suits.