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mk  ·  4096 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Commemorating September 11 through crass commercialism

TBH I was even slightly offended by Google's black ribbon.

A company is a company. A company is not your friend. A company is not your neighbor. It isn't necessary at that any company reach out and express anything related to September 11th. It is a false expression. Even if the CEO really thinks that the expression is sincere, it is not. That is a delusion. A company cannot sincerely express anything to me about 9/11 because a company is a company. If I tried to call the CEO of AT&T yesterday to tell him "Never Forget", I would have not been put through. Randall and I don't have that kind of relationship. Randall runs a company. It provides my cellular service. I pay his company for that.