Posted on 01/13/2018 6:50:21 PM PST by 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.
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Don’t be evil; be positively wicked.
Sounds like James Damore is going to be a very wealthy man.
If it’s anywhere close to as bad as described, it sounds like a slow suicide.
If not from the suit — from the book he’ll write —
The times they are a-changing, like the lefties told us long ago.
See the Tom Hanks movie “The Circle”
“If I were a tech entrepreneur, I would be slavering at the prospect of getting rich by knocking down such a bloated, bureaucratic, arrogant company. They’re practically asking for it, so get to work.”
Funny how the supposedly anti-corporate left has now become what it would once have called its worst nightmare.
I miss the hippies. I really do.
There is a law suit coming asserting unlawful discrimination by a commercial business in the stream of commerce discriminating against people based on their freedom of speech. It will be a huge class actions with damages in the Billions. Just as you cannot deny service on the civil right of race , you CAN NOT discriminate if I say things you dont like in the steam of commerce. It WILL happen soon.
Google is the epitome of irony. “Don’t be evil” is their motto yet that is exactly what they do. However, since it is their kind of evil, then it must be ok.
JoMa
They found it more expedient to just drop the “Don’t”.
“Be evil” was just easier for them, once they had tasted some wealth and power.
I think with Damore they bit off more than they could chew.
The Ninth Circus might give them a temporary party, but the USSC will tell them where to go.
And that’s how a lot of opposition movements end up, if they don’t hang on to godliness. In fact they can look uncannily like what they hated.
C’mon guys, stop it. Diversity is our strength. It’s all about equality and it’s for our own good. Just ask Harrison Bergeron - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2-wxO0M0wc
They are directly under the commerce clause. You absolutely cannot discriminate on the basis of speech in the stream of commerce any more than you can based on race. And YOU SHOULD NOT DO SO. These bastards are heading toward a big bust in the chops.
I sure hope they get a huge legal rebuke for this.
And if I remember it right, this fellow submitted his thesis at the invitation to comment. Of course they were expecting a lot of “woke” comments. And this guy’s eminently reasoned thesis was still the merde in their “woke” punch bowl.
Bravo to him for his self sacrifice. Is there such a thing as a “support Damore” prayer (and other help) group?
I have a suggestion; use other search engines. I avoid Google and find all of my search needs met.
Here is another reason to use a different search engine -
“Between January 2009 and October 2015, Google staffers gathered at the White House on 427 separate occasions. All told, 182 White House employees and 169 Google employees attended the meetings, with participation from almost every domestic policy and national security player in the West Wing.
The frequency of the meetings has increased practically every year, from 32 in 2009 to 97 in 2014. In the first 10 months of 2015, which is as far as the study goes, there were 85 Google meetings.
The most frequent visitor is Johanna Shelton, one of Google’s top lobbyists in Washington — officially its director of public policy. Shelton attended meetings at the White House on 94 different occasions.
The most Google-visited White House official is Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer from 2012 to 2014. In that short period, Park met with Google officials at the White House 22 times. Park’s replacement, current Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, was a former Google vice president. She had five White House meetings as a Google representative, then 10 Google meetings as a White House representative.
The comprehensiveness of Google’s outreach jumps out from the data. You would expect some contact between Google and top technology policymakers like Park, Smith, Aneesh Chopra, Susan Crawford, and Vivek Kundra. But Google’s presence as an economic force and a communications tool gives the company an interest in virtually every aspect of public policy.”
I use bing. I’m open to others, too.
Given the left’s presence in tech, what parts of tech have remained/became conservative?
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