‘Don’t Be Evil’? Google Is Becoming A Police State

The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 12, 2018 | Robert Tracinski

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Google employees are creating their own enclave of mandatory wokeness, but they're not content to keep this ideological policing within their own walls.

Back in the day, Google famously adopted the corporate motto, “Don’t be evil.” It hasn’t turned out so well.

The problem is that their motto didn’t define what constitutes evil, so it left an opening for narrow-minded zealots to commandeer company resources in a witch hunt against whatever they define as the forces of wickedness. That’s what has happened at Google, which has adopted a corporate culture of quasi-totalitarian ideological uniformity that it is now starting to impose on everyone who uses its services. Which is, let’s face it, pretty much everyone. For now.

Google’s internal culture has been laid bare by James Damore’s lawsuit alleging employment discrimination. The picture we get is a corporate culture of lockstep ideological uniformity, enforced by censorship, badgering, and blacklisting. Damore furnishes one note from a Google manager in 2015, addressed to “hostile voices.”

I will never, ever hire/transfer you onto my team. Ever. I don’t care if you are perfect fit or technically excellent or whatever.

I will actively not work with you, even to the point where your team or product is impacted by this decision. I’ll communicate why to your manager if it comes up.

You’re being blacklisted by people at companies outside of Google. You might not have been aware of this, but people know, people talk. There are always social consequences.

[tumblindice]

Fakebook's no better.

[El Cid]

I have a suggestion; use other search engines. I avoid Google and find all of my search needs met.

That part is easy.
I don’t like patronizing Google, but I don’t yet have an alternative to you-tube.

[Monty22002]

At least feel ok that YouTube doesn’t really make them a lot of money.

[El Cid]

Thanks - that is good to know.

[cowlitzron]

I usually use DuckDuckGo to search the web, not a perfect engine, but it’s strong on privacy and I usually find what I’m looking for. In addition to FR, I also use minds.com for political commentary. My blog there is at: https://www.minds.com/poorChristian . I still see videos on YouTube as they still have good Christian conservative videos on there that aren’t anyplace else, but I also use Vimeo and dailymotion.com and, GodTube for inspirational videos. I use Mapqwest and GNOME maps for looking at maps and Pale Moon to browse the web.

[Finalapproach29er]

power corrupts——absolute power corrupts absolutely -Lord Acton

[glock rocks]

Don’t be mean. You don’t have to be mean.

Just remember: Wherever you go ... there you are

- Buckaroo Bonzai

[MarvinStinson]

Google is the US government.

[GailA]

This “FAKE OPIOID CRISIS” has fueled state and federal demands for dubious Pain Clinic, and Rehab centers, that have no clue how to treat a specific disease. Now all diseases have a cure or treatment; Intractable Pain Patient i.e. IPD is now classified as an actual disease in it’s self.

Censorship is rampant at Google. Can’t use the term Illegal Aliens...migrants is the new term. And they are not legal migrants, just illegal invaders who want freebies.

Google is now refusing to do Rehab ads https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/13/16887898/google-adwords-pulled-rehab-addition-center-global

[tbw2]

They discriminate against conservative women, too.

Female Entrepreneur Says Google’s ‘Women in Tech’ Program Ostracized Her for Being Conservative
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/12/09/female-entrepreneur-says-googles-women-in-tech-program-ostracized-her-for-being-conservative/