{"id":10435,"date":"2014-01-19T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2014-01-19T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:52:37","slug":"against-the-google-doodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/against-the-google-doodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Against The Google Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/011914_1749_AgainstTheG1.jpg\" width=\"571\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every day Google updates its front page with a new take on its logo commemorating significant dates or individuals. The bastards. So writes Justin Moyer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;d criticize McDonald&#8217;s and Coca-Cola if they used images of Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to sell their product.<\/li>\n<li>Yet Google does the same and gets platitudes for it.<\/li>\n<li>The company now decides who is and isn&#8217;t worthy of recognition. This used to be a role reserved for the creators of stamps.<\/li>\n<li>Yet in contrast to the stamp commemoration process which includes a Citizen&#8217;s Stamp Advisory Committee, Google&#8217;s doodles are determined undemocratically by 10 technocrats.<\/li>\n<li>There is also an element of hypocrisy. While Google celebrates African American leaders it refuses to release statistics on minority hiring.<\/li>\n<li>Supporters argue that the doodles help bring attention to forgotten icons. After Google featured Zora Neale Hurston her 75 year old book rose to #173 on Amazon&#8217;s best seller list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how this links to Google&#8217;s wider trend towards being evil over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/from-gandhi-to-mlk-historys-giants-have-become-marketing-tools\/2014\/01\/17\/a7f23a24-77cd-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/from-gandhi-to-mlk-historys-giants-have-become-marketing-tools\/2014\/01\/17\/a7f23a24-77cd-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day Google updates its front page with a new take on its logo commemorating significant dates or individuals. The bastards. So writes Justin Moyer: We&#8217;d criticize McDonald&#8217;s and Coca-Cola if they used images of Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to sell their product. Yet Google does the same and gets platitudes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/011914_1749_AgainstTheG1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10438,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions\/10438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}