nyan

Try a different search engine. At least part of the issue really is with Google, specifically.

If the opinions of shallow-minded wanna-be gender police matter that much to you, then there is nothing I can do to help.

Not if they let you send cash (although that is, alas, unlikely).

Part of being an adult is assessing what "everyone" knows and tells you to see whether it's actually true, and if so whether it's relevant to you and the life you want to make for yourself. Granted, this guy is only 23, so he's got a long way to go with that process.

Raking in a $250,000 salary

And isn't willing to move to a more ethical company if it means taking even a modest salary hit, I'll bet. Men seem more likely to make that particular prioritization error, although people of other genders certainly aren't immune.

Part of the problem here is that too many people live to work, instead of the other way around. Once they retire, they have no idea what to do with themselves and take the least-effort path to occupy their time. Which makes them perfect targets for the addictive aspects of social media.

Maybe what we need to do is flood Facebook and Instagram and all the rest with material about the rewards of volunteering for charity.

(Sometimes I'm almost thankful my mother is a technophobe.)

The first two were patched last year sometime. Not sure about the third, but it's the least dangerous (local data corruption only, like the flaky RAM I really ought to replace one of these days).

$120K spent advertising a kid's Minecraft channel is suspicious. The initial flag should just have been for "card not normally used suddenly spending a shit-ton of money—does this look legit?" After that, a ten-second check of what was being advertised would have shown that something was fishy.

Seems to me that this is a dual fail. The father should have monitored his kid more closely and not used his company card for this, but Google should have noticed the unusual spending pattern and flagged it somehow—I mean, it looks like something someone might do using a stolen card, in which case Google might never have gotten its money, if you need a self-interested reason why they should have been keeping a more careful eye on this.

We don't know what kind of company it is or what kind of job this guy does. It's unlikely-but-possible that researching a gaming platform aimed at kids is a reasonable business activity for him.

Y'know, it's funny, but I can't recall ever having heard even one thing I would consider positive about fraternities in the US, and now I discover them tangled up in this matter too. Why are they allowed to continue to exist, when their whole purpose seems to be manslaughter, rape, defamation, and alcohol abuse?

So instead allow Cloudflare to take over the Internet? I do not consider this an improvement.