Which are some of the Creepiest global corporations that stand out for you?

sxt

Coca cola. A company that would sell the soul of humanity to increase sales

Coke is more available than water

In 2013 they began advertising coke as a breakfast alternative to tea and coffee




"Coca-Cola, working through a nonprofit, "managed to actually redirect China's science and policy on obesity and related chronic diseases to align with Coke's position that when it comes to obesity, it is physical activity, not food and drink, that matter," she said, adding that's a position few experts accept"

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/01/29/health/coca-cola-cdc-emails-study/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F


Bonus question. Least creepiest global corporation?

Microsoft?

Arghus

The creepiest ones are the ones you never hear of.

Jonybgud

Monsters Inc.



Ooooohhhhhhh!

Movementarian

Google. Too keen to play nicey nice in the public eye,press and media. While at the same time probably siphoning off and selling huge amounts of data on people from searches. Its terrify.....

Erroneous statement detected. All hail Google!

kneemos

Apple.

dxhound2005

Movementarian wrote: »

Google. Too keen to play nicey nice in the public eye,press and media. While at the same time probably siphoning off and selling huge amounts of data on people from searches. Its terrify.....

Erroneous statement detected. All hail Google!

Especially when it brings us all the nonsense in the OP.

IAMAMORON

Arghus wrote: »

The creepiest ones are the ones you never hear of.

Massively this. You would be dead years by the time you uncovered the half of it, there is simply no time.

We need to start bottling our carbon monoxide now, our future depends on it.

Woke Hogan

Nestle.


https://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6?r=US&IR=T#meanwhile-research-was-proving-breastfeeding-was-healthier-3

sxt

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Especially when it brings us all the nonsense in the OP.

Are coca cola sponsoring your dental fees:D

dxhound2005

sxt wrote: »

Are coca cola sponsoring your dental fees:D

I'm using 150 litres of the stuff every day, because there is no water.

nkl12xtw5goz70

sxt wrote: »

In 2013 they began advertising coke as a breakfast alternative to tea and coffee

Wow, that's creepy all right.

Next you'll tell me the Coke can is recording everything I say and transmitting it back to ... oh, wait.

HamSarris

Goldman Sachs

sxt

Alannah Ambitious Mucous wrote: »

Wow, that's creepy all right.

Next you'll tell me the Coke can is recording everything I say and transmitting it back to ... oh, wait.

Facebook?

When a company like Facebook has the same power and influence as a developed country, that is full on scary

J. Marston

Definitely Apple. Look at the pictures of people buying new phones and the staff cheering them on like they've just scored a cup final goal. It's horrible.

Allinall

J. Marston wrote: »

Definitely Apple. Look at the pictures of people buying new phones and the staff cheering them on like they've just scored a cup final goal. It's horrible.

That’s people being idiots. Not the company being creepy.

Gunmonkey

Hard to pick a creepiest corp, they all try so damn hard for that award.

Least creepiest...LEGO corp. Apart from a few mediocre sets and odd attempts at being "hip" (these recent sets you point your phone at and it "comes alive!"), have never heard any unnerving stuff about them.

Aglomerado

dxhound2005 wrote: »

sxt wrote: »

Are coca cola sponsoring your dental fees:D

I'm using 150 litres of the stuff every day, because there is no water.

It's got electrolytes.

Richard Hillman

Nike.

They jump on a raft of racial or so called "social justice" causes, yet run sweat factories in Asia.

bnt

Koch Industries are a barrel of laughs: a group of companies that include mining companies with a poor environmental record. Then there's what the Koch Brother do with the profits from their industries. The patriarch was a founder of the John Birch Society which opposed civil rights in the USA, and a lot of their money goes to PACs supporting Republicans in Congress. Though they did refuse to support Trump, which is something, I suppose.

Gunmonkey

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Hard to pick a creepiest corp, they all try so damn hard for that award.

Least creepiest...LEGO corp. Apart from a few mediocre sets and odd attempts at being "hip" (these recent sets you point your phone at and it "comes alive!"), have never heard any unnerving stuff about them.

Lego are super secretive and controlling.
Channel 4 made a documentary following a new British designer and they sat in on a design meeting. After it finished the camera crew were asked to leave - they had recreated a design meeting from six months earlier for the cameras but now wanted to do some current stuff.

dxhound2005

Arghus wrote: »

The creepiest ones are the ones you never hear of.

Have you got a list?

SEPT 23 1989

Valdazzo Brothers Olive Oil

TheValeyard

The Umbrella Corporation

valoren

Do you need to complete a national census in 1933? Do you have a problem in trying to differentiate the people you'd like to murder from those who are Ubermensch? IBM's German subsidiary can happily provide the machine tabulating punch card tech which is the "solution" to that problem. And we'll even provide ongoing maintenance too!

JohnnyFlash

Facebook and Google are the result of an internet where people want massive amounts of convenience, but don’t want to pay for any of it. Privacy is then traded for that convenience. Worth about €900 a year according to research.

I hate those Uber, Deliveroo, Airbnb style ‘platform companies’. Real late stage capitalism sort of stuff where a new serf class deliver really cheap stuff to a group of wanton consumers of ‘new stuff’. Where you have the sociopathic owner of Uber buy a 70 million dollar house in a SF neighbourhood where Uber drivers like to sleep in their cars after a shift as they cannot afford to live within 200 miles of SF.

KoolKluxKlan

kneemos wrote: »

Apple.

Care to elaborate for some discussion or just sticking to your usual sh1tpost quality of posts??

theguzman

Monsanto - Maker of Roundup Glyphosulphate, Environmental wrecker.

Nestle, resposible for Destruction in the Amazon

ABP Foods, Larry Goodman in Ireland, he has destroyed Irish Beef farming and still is allowed get away with it.

Halliburton - US War Mongers, benefited enormously from the destruction of Iraq

Bechtel - Similar to the above

The Open Society Foundation - George Soro's personal instrument for interfering in elections and pushing his worldview of PC Cultural Marxism globally.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, legalised spy agencies, the propaganda machine of Soro's and co as above.

Gregor Samsa

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Lego are super secretive and controlling.
Channel 4 made a documentary following a new British designer and they sat in on a design meeting. After it finished the camera crew were asked to leave - they had recreated a design meeting from six months earlier for the cameras but now wanted to do some current stuff.

Nothing particularly creepy about a company not wanting the media recording their product meetings. Not the kind of thing you’d want your competitors to be seeing.

whisky_galore

Any Denis O'Brien media company. The hushed tones they all use when DOB has to be reported on.

Fox News - No explanation needed.

Facebook and Google are data collection fronts pretty much. You could wonder aloud about buying new socks now and sock ads would appear in your feed.

dxhound2005

whisky_galore wrote: »

You could wonder aloud about buying new socks now and sock ads would appear in your feed.

A sort of urban myth according to the BBC.


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49585682

Mad_maxx

theguzman wrote: »

Monsanto - Maker of Roundup Glyphosulphate, Environmental wrecker.

Nestle, resposible for Destruction in the Amazon

ABP Foods, Larry Goodman in Ireland, he has destroyed Irish Beef farming and still is allowed get away with it.

Halliburton - US War Mongers, benefited enormously from the destruction of Iraq

Bechtel - Similar to the above

The Open Society Foundation - George Soro's personal instrument for interfering in elections and pushing his worldview of PC Cultural Marxism globally.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, legalised spy agencies, the propaganda machine of Soro's and co as above.

Dick cheney is a key figure in Halliburton

Montage of Feck

valoren wrote: »

Do you need to complete a national census in 1933? Do you have a problem in trying to differentiate the people you'd like to murder from those who are Ubermensch? IBM's German subsidiary can happily provide the machine tabulating punch card tech which is the "solution" to that problem. And we'll even provide ongoing maintenance too!

If the Nazis had won I would be probably posting this comment on my Zuse.

Fr_Dougal

Quantcast. They’re basically the Cambridge Analytica of marketing.

bodhrandude

I agree with thegunzman about Monsanto, one of the worst out there.

The chan chan man

The catholic church. Someone told me a guy in there once touched a kid!

dxhound2005

dxhound2005 wrote: »

A sort of urban myth according to the BBC.


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49585682

It's incredible the amount of otherwise intelligent people who are convinced their phones are listening to them.

The alternative is just so much more obvious. You have lots of social media contacts with somebody who searches for viola strings on Google, and suddenly, viola strings appear in your ads. It doesn't mean that Google was listening that one time that your friend mentioned Viola strings over coffee. What a waste of resources that would have been.

It's not just paranoiacs who believe in this, I've heard professionals in tech murmuring about it. It makes no sense on almost any level.

theguzman

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's incredible the amount of otherwise intelligent people who are convinced their phones are listening to them.

The alternative is just so much more obvious. You have lots of social media contacts with somebody who searches for viola strings on Google, and suddenly, viola strings appear in your ads. It doesn't mean that Google was listening that one time that your friend mentioned Viola strings over coffee. What a waste of resources that would have been.

It's not just paranoiacs who believe in this, I've heard professionals in tech murmuring about it. It makes no sense on almost any level.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/29/apple-apologises-listen-siri-recordings

Any smart phone can be remotely listened into, if you are a person of extreme wealth or political importance or a Jihadi terrorist then you won't use a smart phone.

Strumms

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Nestle.


https://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6?r=US&IR=T#meanwhile-research-was-proving-breastfeeding-was-healthier-3

I know a guy who did some work for a few years for them here as a contractor in a few supermarkets and said they were absolute cûnts, unreasonable beyond belief and try to get paid....:mad: He’d be a relatively easy going and patient guy but a hard worker who expected ...work done = pony up.

the dark phantom

Raytheon

theguzman

theguzman wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/29/apple-apologises-listen-siri-recordings

Any smart phone can be remotely listened into, if you are a person of extreme wealth or political importance or a Jihadi terrorist then you won't use a smart phone.

But that's not the point at all. Why expend such tremendous energy in listening to billions of unfiltered, background chatter 24/7 when there are far smarter ways to collect data - data that people clearly have a special interest in searching for - instead? It makes no sense.

It makes far more sense to analyse user data and disseminate content towards that user's closest contacts, especially if they share interest in the same content across social media platforms.

Apple doesn't need to listen to your background chatter because they're already a few steps ahead.

noel1980

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Facebook and Google are the result of an internet where people want massive amounts of convenience, but don’t want to pay for any of it. Privacy is then traded for that convenience. Worth about €900 a year according to research.

I hate those Uber, Deliveroo, Airbnb style ‘platform companies’. Real late stage capitalism sort of stuff where a new serf class deliver really cheap stuff to a group of wanton consumers of ‘new stuff’. Where you have the sociopathic owner of Uber buy a 70 million dollar house in a SF neighbourhood where Uber drivers like to sleep in their cars after a shift as they cannot afford to live within 200 miles of SF.

Uber are not even profitable. They've never made a cent... lol

Tell me how

Never been a fan of Amazon, their MO was specifically to put small operators out of business and they drive their staff excessively hard. Staff where the average wage is $29k/annum while Bezos is one of the wealthiest men in the world.

Also, I believe the initial Apple focus was optimising tech and access to it but they have long become way more focused on the 'brand' and their Itunes library software infuriated me so much 15 years ago that that ipod was the first, and will be the only Apple product I ever bought. Paying 4 times the price for a laptop just so you can tell people you did some work on your macbook makes my skin crawl.

The likes of Philip Moris and the Oil Companies are most defintely deliberately trying to keep people and society dependant on products which are bad for them and the environment to the point of breaking the law except now they are largely (in the case of the oil companies) too big to tackle.

TuringBot47

theguzman wrote: »

Monsanto - Maker of Roundup Glyphosulphate, Environmental wrecker.

+1 on Monsanto.

They also sold GM foods.
But if you were a normal farmer beside a farmer who bought their GM seeds and it cross contaminated into your field, they were suing you for fees. Trying to control food.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Pharmaceutical companies liked Purdue

https://www.healio.com/primary-care/addiction/news/online/%7B5e71a141-52f9-4095-90cc-a6437c0ef1ea%7D/first-opioid-lawsuit-settlement-raises-questions-with-dozens-more-cases-waiting

They're effectively legal drug dealers that were pushing anti anxiety drugs to Americans. Even in Ireland there's a push to stop prescribing benzos.

And if a big pharma company found two solutions to a medical problem. One which completely cured it with one tablet or another which just relieved the symptoms but meant you had to pay them for the rest of your life, I've no doubt which one would progress as a product.
And never mind any little side effects of any of their products.

And let's not forget the tabacco/cigarette industry whose denial of links to cancer for decades killed hundreds of thousands of people.

FTA69

theguzman wrote: »

Monsanto - Maker of Roundup Glyphosulphate, Environmental wrecker.

Nestle, resposible for Destruction in the Amazon

ABP Foods, Larry Goodman in Ireland, he has destroyed Irish Beef farming and still is allowed get away with it.

Halliburton - US War Mongers, benefited enormously from the destruction of Iraq

Bechtel - Similar to the above

The Open Society Foundation - George Soro's personal instrument for interfering in elections and pushing his worldview of PC Cultural Marxism globally.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, legalised spy agencies, the propaganda machine of Soro's and co as above.

There’s no such thing as “cultural Marxism”. Soros is a billionaire financier and disaster capitalist, he didn’t get that rich by being a f*cking Communist did he?

The term you’re looking for to describe Soros is ‘liberal capitalist’.

Foweva Awone

sxt wrote: »

Coca cola. A company that would sell the soul of humanity to increase sales

Coke is more available than water

In 2013 they began advertising coke as a breakfast alternative to tea and coffee.

What's actually wrong with that? I'm having my breakfast right now, two Weetabix and a can of Diet Coke, same as I have every morning before work. And no I don't like tea or coffee, so my Diet Coke works for my hit of caffeine to wake me up in the mornings.

I'm under no illusions that it's healthy, but I don't see what's creepy about advertising it.

NoteAgent

theguzman wrote: »

ABP Foods, Larry Goodman in Ireland, he has destroyed Irish Beef farming and still is allowed get away with it.

Not sure about this one. What happened to the beef farmers could be seen a mile off - over supply and only a couple of meat processors in the country. Of course ABP make the farmers compete against each other to get the price down. Business 101.

The farmers seem incredibly entitled. Rather than upskill/change industry like you and I have to do, they throw a tantrum and go running to the EU for money to live off - basically the dole. Imagine if you ran a business that wasnt making any money and you could just go the Givernment to keep you afloat. Sounds like Communism. There needs to be massive consolidation within the beef farming business in order for it to be viable again.

lord quackinton

NoteAgent wrote: »

Not sure about this one. What happened to the beef farmers could be seen a mile off - over supply and only a couple of meat processors in the country. Of course ABP make the farmers compete against each other to get the price down. Business 101.

The farmers seem incredibly entitled. Rather than upskill/change industry like you and I have to do, they throw a tantrum and go running to the EU for money to live off - basically the dole. Imagine if you ran a business that wasnt making any money and you could just go the Givernment to keep you afloat. Sounds like Communism. There needs to be massive consolidation within the beef farming business in order for it to be viable again.

The farmers are paid subsidies by the EU so they will produce food for your table that you buy at heavily discounted prices. The EU and the UK follow a cheap food policy and that is only achievable by importing from outside EU and subsidising internally.
The problem is we all want to shop local for food because of quality and environment reasons but we don’t want to pay for it.
Farmers sit on highly valued assets but very few make any money. And when prices of beef and crops go up then the farm suppliers put their prices up

The reality is the Irish farmers are the foundation for tens of thousands of jobs and the continued demise of the farm industry is also the demise of rural Ireland.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

NoteAgent wrote: »

Not sure about this one. What happened to the beef farmers could be seen a mile off - over supply and only a couple of meat processors in the country. Of course ABP make the farmers compete against each other to get the price down. Business 101.

The farmers seem incredibly entitled. Rather than upskill/change industry like you and I have to do, they throw a tantrum and go running to the EU for money to live off - basically the dole. Imagine if you ran a business that wasnt making any money and you could just go the Givernment to keep you afloat. Sounds like Communism. There needs to be massive consolidation within the beef farming business in order for it to be viable again.

I don't think you really know anything about communism or farming.

Shell & Nestle are my top two scumbag companies.

topper75

theguzman wrote: »

The Open Society Foundation - George Soro's personal instrument for interfering in elections and pushing his worldview of PC Cultural Marxism globally.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, legalised spy agencies, the propaganda machine of Soro's and co as above.

There is a view being pushed through all those channels alright.

Is Netflix in that list I wonder? I was browsing through on a friend's TV lately and, though the offerings were indeed many, I couldn't but help notice a certain bent to the majority of them.
It seemed to be largely aimed at a liberal middle-class American Democrat Party sensitivity - including all the recent "inclusivity"/"diversity"/"empowerment" add-ons.

randd1

Basically an diamond or jewellery company.

Sportswear companies.

blackwhite

sxt wrote: »

In 2013 they began advertising coke as a breakfast alternative to tea and coffee

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Eeeeh - the address of your image shows that ad is from 1987 - not 2013!