Google removes 'Don't Be Evil' clause from its Code of Conduct

[Kent Sharkey]

Gizmodo[^]:

Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees.

"You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil."

[PeejayAdams]

OMG! They've replaced a waffly middle paragraph with a more readable summary of it at the end of the document! In the post-truth world, I guess this passes for hot news.

98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

:zzz: Slow news day?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[Rob Grainger]

I assumed that had gone a long time ago. But with undertaking work with military applications, they've seem to have removed the word "don't".

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

They could replace the phrase with a simple mwa ha ha[^]

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