Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Google firing an engineer for standing up against the hive mind is about more than one minority opinion. If the web's gatekeeper doesn't believe in its own employees' right to free speech, how can we trust it with ours?

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'When it comes to diversity and inclusion, Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence. This silence removed any checks against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies’ he wrote.

But whether or not we agree with every one of his sentiments, many of us will identify with the above that James been brave enough to say.

Too many no longer have a voice because the list of things we cannot say is longer than the list of things we can. And too often it is voices from the right that are presented as wrong.

In his detailed analysis entitled ‘Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber’, he argues it is biological differences which play a role in the shortage of women in tech. And that Conservatives voices are silenced.

And, as if to underline his point, James Damore has just been fired.

Google CEO Sunder Pichai cut short his family holiday to deal with the fall out, making it sound like he just lost his father and mother in some kind of horrible accident. Full story...

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