Morality

I love reading Wired, every month the magazine is a good mix of technology, politics, science and other things from the town of Geeksville. 

I never really log-on to their website purely because I read so many blogs and tech websites, picking up an actual paper pub and flicking through it over a coffee makes a nice treat. 

Anyway I digress…

In this months issue there was quite a good piece on Google, their recent acts of immorality and the organisation changing it’s stance on their original promise of “not doing evil”. 

Wired as we all know is a US magazine and all the examples given in the piece were based on Google’s immoral doings in its homeland. 

Personally I think the acts of immorality have not been exclusive to the US. Google’s recent move to allow gambling advertisers to use paid search advertising in the UK is quite frankly, the icing on their immoral cake. 

They have clearly opened up their advertising platform to gambling advertisers in order to sustain financial business growth throughout the credit crunch. 

With a currently unstable economic climate, people are being encouraged to be wise with their cash. This means living within our means, avoiding credit use, overdrafts etc. 

Taking all of the above into account, what does Google do? They help gambling companies push gambling (a significant waste of money and cause for bad debt) onto the public for the sake of sustaining their own profitability and growth.

Hmm…I’ll leave you guys to be judge of their actions, in the meantime enjoy the pic I’ve scanned from this months Wired.