Posted on 08/11/2017 12:10:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
FTA:liberal exchange of ideas
Goolags version is exchange of liberal ideas.
As an openly conservative employee and contractor at Microsoft for 15 years, I can say that, while in the minority, I was never discriminated against when I regularly shared my conservative opinions.
Just sayin’.
Google is truly Orwellian. It boasts that one can find anything searching with Google. Yet Google is blocking and hindering searches of sites and views it finds unacceptable. Therefore they go into a “Memory hole”.
Google, where you can find anything as long as it is the approved things that you are looking for.
4chan is on the warpath.
Anyone who has read the literature on wage differentials, dating back to the work by Parnes and Fleischer, would know that there are real economic reasons for wage disparity. Further, I never heard anyone champion the male cause when they were paid less than women at the Westinghouse assembly plant. (I think they made parts for telephones.)
Some time ago a female letter carrier sued the Post Office because male letters carriers in her station were paid more than she was. She won. The next day she was asked to unload 150lb mail sacks like the other letter carriers were. She quit after two days. Sometimes, what appears as “equal work”, in fact, is not.
I hope that tie Dinesh is wearing was a gift from his kids.
Plus if it were “1984 at Google” ...i doubt one could do a Google search of “1984 at Google” and get “1984 at Google” as the top of the page.
liberal fascism
Correct. First page of returns are anti-Google. We are not at "1984" levels yet and let's keep it from happening.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.html
http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320
Flaming fellow employees with a political diatribe is generally frowned upon, and should be, by most employers. Not surprised he got fired; I would have fired him too.
Even though Goolag encouraged "open" expression, I'll repost the lessons that I hope Damore learned:
1. Don't trust HR. They don't work for you. They work for the company.
2. "Free speech" isn't really free of consequence, especially in the workplace.
3. When a company asks for feedback, they aren't really asking for feedback.
4. When a company says "diversity," they're really talking about discriminating against white men. They're not talking about diversity of opinion. They don't want to acknowledge the truth.
5. Your coworkers will, by and large, throw you under the bus to show how virtuous they are and to get in good with management.
Excellent
I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of Google. There are many skeletons in there, and they shall soon come out. Clearly a class of employees there have had enough, and now are willing to expose the company for what it is. I suspect this company has a financial background far shadier than anything we saw at Enron.
Excellent post.
As a practical matter, the First Amendment means nothing if speech in the 21st. Century is conducted primarily on the internet, and a handful of companies have the power to censor its content.
As loathe as I am to impose regulation on the private sector, Steve Bannon is right. Google, Facebook, et. al. need to be regulated like public utilities. Elsewise the First Amendment dies.
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