{"id":294279,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294279"},"modified":"2025-04-28T05:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:13:04","slug":"ive-worked-at-google-for-decades-and-im-sickened-by-what-its-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/04\/ive-worked-at-google-for-decades-and-im-sickened-by-what-its-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Worked at Google for Decades and I\u2019m Sickened by What It\u2019s Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>16 Apr 2025 &#8211;\u00a0<em>For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I joined Google, over 20 years ago, it was just a start-up employing a few thousand people. It felt like we were committed to making something useful for society. When I first visited the Mountain View headquarters and saw people in Google-branded T-shirts, I thought the company must make engineers wear a uniform\u2014why else would someone wear a shirt announcing where they work? I\u2019d never seen or experienced this sense of passion for one\u2019s employer, but I soon saw why: Every few months, a new product or feature would launch that offered a free and truly useful service (Gmail! Google Maps!).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting\/?custno=&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly%204.25.2025&amp;utm_term=weekly\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; thenation.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Apr 2025 &#8211;\u00a0For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[101,462,880,99,481],"class_list":["post-294279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","tag-cultural-violence","tag-google","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294280,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294279\/revisions\/294280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}