[motoxpro]

I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?

[DetectDefect]

> a guy made a bunch of money

Through the systemic abuse and exploitation of countless individuals' privacy and autonomy. The context is everything.

[jacquesm]

The 'how' matters.

[oulipo2]

Right now he's mostly spending it on weapons and AI to control people

[closewith]

> Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants.

A guy has woken up to the fact that he'll be remembered as a villian and is trying to whitewash his reputation.

[ggggffggggg]

I don’t know that the vast majority of Americans know who Eric Schmidt is. And unless they find little green men, no one will care about this project, so it won’t affect his (essentially nonexistent) reputation.

It’s not unlike if you had a blog post about a gardening project in your backyard. Perhaps interesting to gardeners, but approximately no one cares.

Low effort cynicism.

[melling]

I forget why he’s a villain. Did he do something at Google?

He’s sort of a lesser known figure to me.

[BigTTYGothGF]

It worked for Alfred Nobel.