Because "do I trust HR?" (a question to which the answer is almost certainly always "no, but it doesn't matter in most cases"), is only one minor criteria amongst a vast plethora of other important ones when deciding to join a company or not?
> they bear the moral responsibility for all the people who will be affected by this
Facebook should not be held responsible for dictatorships and totalitarian regimes killing people - even if they use Facebook's leaked data to do so. It's quite unfortunate, but the responsible party to blame is still the people actually doing the killing.
I seem to remember that the 98 case was a trademark violation. Microsoft used the Java brand even though their implementation wasn't compliant (it was a derivative) - which was a big issue for Sun since one of the main point of Java is compatibility ("Write once, run everywhere").
Google however made sure to always be clear about "the Java Programming Language" or such safe phrase that makes clear that they're not the official thing.
This is a strange argument to make, do you mean that people don't have free will and will vote whatever their TV tells them to? And what solution to this "problem" do you suggest?
Wooopsie - how long before they get canceled?