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rms
This headline is dumb and is likely to inspire a worthless discussion, so I suggest we avoid responding to it. There are many reasons that Google is evil; there are many reasons Google isn't evil and if you want to boycott them I wish you the best of luck.
bayareaguy
This is silly. It's like saying you should boycott the phone company because they will help the republicans setup some phones for the event. It's not like Google is going to do something Evil© like hack Google Maps to send democrats looking for voting places to Timbuktu. I'm sure Google will be happy to give the same stuff to the DNC when it's their turn.
rms
And the Republicans were smart enough to give Google free publicity and Google knew the negative attention from being associated with the party of some recent insane mass murderers wouldn't actually matter. I do expect this would be truly controversial if Google was officially endorsed in some way by the Chinese Communist Party.

You need to subscribe to relative morality once you start doing business with governments that have killed people.

bayareaguy
Is there a government that hasn't killed people?
rms
I doubt it... some policy will always end up indirectly killing someone. China and the US are a lot more evil than a country like Sweden, though.
xirium
Not necessarily. Diebold donates more to Republicans than Democrats. Is this evil? Well, when you make voting machines, political donations are at the very least a conflict of interest.