But inside Google itself, Cornet was a tragic fool in more metaphorical ways than someone with a STEM degree could possibly comprehend. While historical jesters indeed were able to criticize their lieges unlike other mortals, people are quick to forget that they were still a cog in the sovereign propaganda machine, their true job as entertainers to distract dissenters from their megalomaniac master’s most heinous flaws through superficial, light-to-medium razzing.
That former CEO and veteran data-reaver Eric Schmidt stuck one of Cornet’s comics on his office door for years was not a bug but an approved feature; treating it as just another brightly colored, humanly self-aware bit of Google veneer that drew away attention from the darkest deeds performed in the name of the Ever Watching Algorithm.
Over time, Cornet did fulfill his true jesterial destiny. All he needed to do was grow more and more depressingly disillusioned with Google’s good-guy facade. By 2018, after a series of stupendous ethical violations in the tech industry, Goomics had switched from relatable content to full-on political satire, with Cornet acting as a one-man ethics watchdog hellbent on raising Google employees’ awareness of their online overlords’ descent into despotism. While his earlier cartoons would poke fun at corporate nap pods and maddening tech bureaucracy, his later works featured biting commentary of Google’s despicable in-house censorship …
Google’s In-House Political Cartoonist Quits Over Company’s Unfunny Apparent Lack Of Ethics
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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