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I doubt Google or any other SV corporation would ever agree to help with a Muslim registry. Even if somehow the top leadership of such a company were to agree (which I doubt), you'd see defections, sabotage, and heavy leaks almost immediately.

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http://neveragain.tech/ has a ton of Googlers on there. I'm among them.

Your replacement won't care. You even gave Alphabet mgmt a nice list of who to downsize.

I can't speak to anyone else's experiences here, but your cynicism seems unwarranted based on mine.

We'll its not like google had any problems creating a registry for Hillary who was the actual threat to democracy as the Podesta emails verified.

https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-workin...

You assume that they'll be able to find an equally qualified replacement quickly enough. Having observed how hard it is to hire good people, I doubt that.

(Full disclosure: my name is also on the list linked above.)

I am skeptical. If you really want to make the promise of "never again", maybe you shouldn't participate in massive data collection efforts such as those of Google in the first place.

Very false equivalence.

Julian Assange's story about his encounter with Google leadership was fairly chilling. Even taking him with a (big) grain of salt...

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

Fascinating read, thank you for the link!

I read a bit of this during the election cycle but must have got sidetracked. I read through the whole piece just now and I am really impressed by its depth and subtle humor. It's lengthy but I really recommend it.

You mean the Nseers registry that was in place, probably build by the same SV companies, and Obama just dismantled it to make Trump look bad? Yeah..

Registry used to track Arabs and Muslims dismantled by Obama administration:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/22/nseers-arab-...

That was for for non-citizens. Big difference from Trump's implication during the election that Muslim citizens are keeping their mouths shut and not reporting terrorists.

Trump's previously proposed Muslim registry covers Muslims already authorized to live in the US.

Palantir being the exception that proves the rule.

Doubt they're the only one. For all the talk of noble ideals in SV the only real principle is money.

Facebook and others are, at the very least, aware of the purpose behind those various "Quizzes" that are posted using their advertising platforms.

Edit: A reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda...

Pedantic aside: This isn't the right way to use this phrase. The exception that proves the rule is the data point that demonstrates that it makes sense to call it a rule and not just something which is always true.

'Dogs bark' is proven a rule by cats meowing, not by a dog that doesn't bark

I don't understand how cats meowing proves anything about dogs. But see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...

The original sense is "No parking on sundays" proves that parking is allowed on other days.

The colloquial sense is that if something is a surprising, it shows that its opposite was a useful rule of thumb, or at least one you'd established in your head. (E.g. if you are surprised by a dog that doesn't bark, this surprise is meaningful and says something about what you think about dogs and barking.)

If palantir is shocking as a SV company, this says something interesting about what you think about SV companies.

or a run of the mill gag order that lasts for a decade

but okay....

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