Uh huh, ok well time to phase GM out of any future car choice, then

If by “it”, you are asking if I am claiming Google is anti-abortion… No. I’m complaining about the humanity of their business model. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

Yellow Pages is different from Google because there is no targeting of the advert. If there was a Yellow Pages tablet, that showed you ads for/against abortion (choose whichever you disagree with) repeatedly around every trade you looked up (plumber, chiropodist, lawyer, etc), then yes, it would be similar and I’d have a similar problem with it.

It is Google’s praxis of directing ads to targeted groups, coupled with the vulnerability of some of these target groups and the willingness of otherwise-aligned parties (the anti-abortion group, here) to pay Google to do this - all three combined are the problem here. I don’t think Google gets a free pass.

I know they dropped the “Don’t be evil” mantra, presumably the ability to do things like this is why…

I think you are drawing a distinction without a difference to my point immediately above. I believe Google has some responsibility for the end-result of providing the service to attack these women. shrug others apparently don't.

Still, any criticism of the God of the holy internets is always risky on reddit, hence the downvotes...

But there is intent, no ? Someone has paid Google to target these women, and Google is doing just that. I’m not saying that Google are anti-abortion per se, I’m saying they just don’t care, that this is their business model and they are executing on it.

I mean yes, someone is paying Google to direct pregnant women to anti-abortion groups, but the claim still seems to stand.

Apple profit (not revenue) last quarter was $20.7B

So for ~90 days they made 230 million dollars per day

So for each hour they made 9.5 million dollars per hour

So 1M euros (=1.06M$) took them 0.11 hours

... or about 7 minutes, if you round up.

At some point Apple's going to have to start buying more couches to stuff money down the back of to pay these piddling little fines, or "the cost of doing business" as it's known...

Yup, my first thought as well.