The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

[davidho@mastodon.world]

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-pledges-roughly-three-hours-of-its-annual-profit-to-fight-climate-change-164808010.html

[mistermadge@universeodon.com]

@davidho not even 3 hours of annual revenue?

[jill@mastodon.de]

@davidho Is this the same publicity stunt like German companies do by usually donating 10% at the end of a year for a "good cause" in order to have it deducted from tax?

[easthighnerd@raru.re]

@davidho
How does one get past the newsletter subscription thing to actually read the article?

[zetabeta@mastodon.social]

@davidho
annual ! if my math matches, it is roughly 0.05 % of yearly profit.

orange rash probably bans even this one.

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@davidho Just enough to tell everyone how much Google cares about the environment.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@davidho

If Google paid their taxes, it would be cooler if they did...

[randamumaki@mstdn.social]

@davidho Three hours of annual profit. I cannot.

[randamumaki@mstdn.social]

@easthighNerd @davidho You can use an archive site, like this; https://archive.ph/LppJM

I've also just copypasted the text here as alt text to the screenshot.

I hope that helps? :)

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@davidho
degoogle your world!
i did. its brilliant.

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@davidho #SoBrave

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@MyView @davidho

"Just pledging?
Anybody can do that ..."

Good point. I, too, officially pledge 3% of Google's profits to fight climate change.

[controlc@mstdn.ca]

@davidho All corporate pledges of this nature should, from now on, be expressed in hours of profit.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@jill @davidho

Google has no interest in civil rights, democracy, rule of law, or the survival of the planet.

Why?

They take investment money from murderous petrostate despots like #PrinceBonesaw

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/business/google-discrimination-settlement-women.html

https://proton.me/tech-fines-tracker

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39v2ykwgdno

https://www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-driven-search-may-reshape-democracy-economics-and-human-agency/

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1992

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wgn3lre14o

Google isn't unique

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/peter-thiel-israel-palantir/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-greenland-billionaires/

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@EdCates @MyView @davidho 3% is actually far far more than they pledged. This still gives them too much credit...

[stiv@mastodon.social]

@davidho to steal a Seth Myers joke "let me be the first to say 'Welcome back glaciers!'"

[vvbudh@climatejustice.social]

@davidho @breadandcircuses would definitely call this greenwashing.

[res260@infosec.exchange]

@MisterMadge @davidho Yes, the headline is misinformation, it's 3h of annual revenue, it's written in the article