2k25, what's the worst enormous tech company?

Larry and David Ellison already formed Paramount Skydance (which includes CBS), and may soon control...

Tik Tok (Oracle is working with Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz to buy it, in a deal negotiated by...the white house?)

and are bidding to take control of Time Warner Discovery, which owns CNN

2025 could be the Ellison's year to finally lose their underdog status for evil and really step into the spotlight

i'm back on microsoft now i think. we've come full circle

what's microsoft's case this year?

supporting israel with genocide software whilst also spearheading the massive AI bubble that's going to end the US economy

Palantir seems the most big-brother evil at this moment

X/Twitter

^^

X/Twitter as an extension of Elon Musk's ego and reflection of his politics, certainly qualifies as enormously evil, but does it qualify as an "enormous tech company" by any other measures?

I’m even more old school I think Digital Electronics can make a big evil comeback

nintendo is the worst enormous tech company. no nintendogs at the last nintendo direct, what gives

X/Twitter as an extension of Elon Musk's ego and reflection of his politics, certainly qualifies as enormously evil, but does it qualify as an "enormous tech company" by any other measures?

While they are technically separate companies, I tend to think of Musk's companies (X, Tesla, SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink) almost as a single entity given shared management. And I find Twitter/X more worrisome than Facebook, Google, etc of late because a widely-used social network has been actively repurposed as a platform to boost far-right ideologies across the world (such as AfD in Germany) as well as in its home country. Some will chime in saying other tech companies have done this too, but for those it tends to be a passive rather than active effort, such as algorithms feeding far-right content to people who view other far-right content. Not their CEO retweeting posts from bigots, misogynists, and Nazis.

Oh, and all of those Musk properties range from the strongest in their field to outright monopolies

so yes, enormous tech company

I thought these were polls, yes X by far the worst

The Elonigarchy - X/Tesla/Palantir = no contest

I thought these were polls

unfortunately due to budget cuts and the loss of a key grant, polls on the worst tech company threads have been sacked for the forseeable future :(

Whenever I see a picture of Larry Ellison I think it's Mickey Rourke:
https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AP25253632194872-1000x667.jpg

The explicitly, psychotically fascist Palantir gets my vote:
https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-calls-company-anti-woke-revenue-surge-2025-11

Pretty amusing tale from Judy Chicago about her failed experience with Google here:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/judy-chicago-google-2741752

We were told that Google wanted to turn the Thompson Center into a space that was so warm and hospitable that it would entice employees to go to the office rather than stay home and work remotely in their pajamas; it seems that many young people are reluctant to engage in the synergy that arises from face-to-face encounters. As I have spent a great deal of time attempting to “soften” the male-built environment through my work, I seemed to be a perfect choice.

hmmm

When The Dinner Party was shown in a run-down section of the city, it drew so many people to the area that it began its gentrification.

hmm

the name “Judy Chicago” makes me think she’s the sister of Nathan Detroit

assholes gonna asshole

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday to testify in a trial that could hold social media companies responsible for harming minors, he was seen escorted in by a team of people wearing the Meta Ray-Ban artificial intelligence glasses.

That prompted Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl to issue a stern warning about the wearable tech accessory, which can record video and audio and livestream.

“If you have (recorded), you must delete that, or you will be held in contempt of the court,” Kuhl said, according to CNBC. Recording of any kind is not allowed in the courtroom.

“This is very serious," the judge warned.

(my ex works for them and we actually had a early pair of these raybans on a trip to Zion canyon a few years ago)