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Amazingawesomator t1_j9uz11c wrote

That feel when you read the title and think google is being a bro, but then you read the article and...

> ... to destroy evidence needed in an antitrust lawsuit while falsely telling the government that it suspended its auto-deletion practices.

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JMacNCheese91 t1_j9vf1mi wrote

Google would never be a bro dude. They’d dig up your porn from 20 years ago just to make $20.

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hocumflute t1_j9w7cv2 wrote

I'm so glad the cut off is 20 years :)

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xtrapas t1_j9xg6lp wrote

i wish i could find my old porn :<

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Lord_Blizzard t1_j9z5lzn wrote

Shouldn't have destroyed thoses CDs!

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xtrapas t1_j9z7yxx wrote

youngling lol

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i was thinking my old vhs tape.. the one with the thin section. the scene i loved most, so repeated use... poor tape

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VHS dude, VHS

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cds...pff

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TheFuzziestDumpling t1_j9vxw6u wrote

What part of that title makes you think they're being a bro?

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VelveteenAmbush t1_j9w6cob wrote

He thought they were helping individual criminals get away with their crimes, which is something that a strangely high proportion of Reddit seems to favor.

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Glittering_Power6257 t1_ja12k6u wrote

I’ll destroy my own evidence, thank you very much…

Not that there will be any, because “Don’t write down your crimes.”

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Amazingawesomator t1_j9vz7y3 wrote

They were routinely destroying evidence.

My first thought was that they were destroying stuff the police were asking for while doing investigations.

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ms4720 t1_j9w0u5s wrote

They were, when they were getting investigated

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atsinged t1_j9wh3cz wrote

>They were routinely destroying evidence.My first thought was that they were destroying stuff the police were asking for while doing investigations.

Investigating people like child predators? CSAM? Online solicitation of a minor cases?

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Amazingawesomator t1_j9wmmms wrote

Whoa. Watch out for this guy goin straight for the "helping child predators" approach.

There are plenty of people locked up for extremely minor things in the US (like drug possession, theft, etc) who are only in jail because they are poor.

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Snotbob t1_j9xjdq2 wrote

I mean, you went straight for "Google being a bro" and assumed they were actively interfering with police investigations and deleting evidence all just to protect poor criminals, so... you're not really one to judge here.

Like honestly, I'm struggling to wrap my head around how you could 1) be this naive about Google, 2) assume they give a single shit about poor criminals, 3) assume any big tech company, let alone Google, would go out of their way to delete evidence of ongoing investigations for anyone other than themselves, and 4) not automatically assume that the investigations were about Google, the multi billion dollar tech company with a looong history of lawsuits for things just like this.

Google hasn't been a "bro" for nearly 20 years now, and the only thing they care about you is collecting your data and stuffing more and more targeted ads into your life to profit off of you. If they care at all about poor criminals, it's only because they can't collect their data and make ad money off of them when they're locked up.

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ninjahackerman t1_j9z0g1l wrote

This is Reddit bro. If you speak out against any corporation or government you will be attacked on all fronts

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