{"id":6460,"date":"2020-01-19T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T12:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T12:51:41","slug":"the-30-most-evil-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/01\/19\/the-30-most-evil-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies – Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I was chatting about it with an acquaintance yesterday about it. He thought the worst were Amazon and Oracle.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

They are in bad company; in bold my own:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Amazon<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Facebook<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Alphabet<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Palantir Technologies<\/li>\n
  5. Uber<\/li>\n
  6. Apple<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Microsoft<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Twitter<\/li>\n
  9. ByteDance<\/li>\n
  10. Exxon Mobil<\/li>\n
  11. Huawei<\/li>\n
  12. LiveRamp (formerly Acxiom)<\/li>\n
  13. Tencent<\/li>\n
  14. Tesla<\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. Disney\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. Verizon<\/li>\n
  17. SpaceX<\/li>\n
  18. …<\/li>\n
  19. Oracle<\/strong><\/li>\n
  20. 208kun (formerly 8chan)<\/li>\n
  21. Cloudflare<\/li>\n
  22. IBM<\/li>\n
  23. 23Anduril Industries<\/li>\n
  24. Airbnb<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies – Slashdot I was chatting about it with an acquaintance yesterday about it. He thought the worst were Amazon and Oracle.<\/p>\n

    Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-ethics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-1Gc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4827,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/11\/04\/on-why-there-will-never-be-another-red-hat\/","url_meta":{"origin":6460,"position":0},"title":"On Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2018-11-04","format":false,"excerpt":"Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source \u2013 Andreessen Horowitz is a perfectly-sound article from a pure \"profit-only\" point of view. 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