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Tuesday, 9 January 2018
quote [ James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.
His claims: that Google unfairly discriminates against white men whose political views are unpopular with its executives. ] The look on his poor lawyer's face.
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0123 said @ 1:13pm GMT on 11th January
Damore and Gudeman’s lawsuit will bring evidence to support the contention that Google shows greater tolerance for, “employees who sexually identify as yellow-scaled wingless dragonkins, or expansive ornate buildings'" (no, I am not making that up), then for fundamentalist Christians, or political conservatives. But it’s chief accomplishment will be to much more than shedding light on a creepy corporate culture - It will question if same bizarre philosophies that govern the workplace, also inform the algorithms the company produces.
If the world's largest conduit to information, and the world’s biggest censor, has a zero-tolerance policy for anything “un-Googley”, how much of that zero-tolerance leaks into our everyday lives, impacting what you and I are reading and seeing online.
0123 said @ 1:15pm GMT on 11th January
Damore and Gudeman’s lawsuit will bring evidence to support the contention that Google shows greater tolerance for, “employees who sexually identify as yellow-scaled wingless dragonkins, or expansive ornate buildings'" (no, I am not making that up), then for fundamentalist Christians, or political conservatives. But it’s chief accomplishment will be much more than shedding light on a creepy corporate culture - it will force us to question if the same bizarre philosophies that govern the workplace, also inform the algorithms the company produces.
If the world's largest conduit to information, and the world’s biggest censor, has a zero-tolerance policy for anything “un-Googley”, how much of that zero-tolerance leaks into our everyday lives, impacting what you and I are reading and seeing online.
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0123 said @ 1:13pm GMT on 11th January [Score:-1 Boring]
Damore and Gudeman’s lawsuit will bring evidence to support the contention that Google shows greater tolerance for, “employees who sexually identify as yellow-scaled wingless dragonkins, or expansive ornate buildings'" (no, I am not making that up), then for fundamentalist Christians, or political conservatives. But it’s chief accomplishment will be much more than shedding light on a creepy corporate culture - it will force us to question if the same bizarre philosophies that govern the workplace, also inform the algorithms the company produces.
If the world's largest conduit to information, and the world’s biggest censor, has a zero-tolerance policy for anything “un-Googley”, how much of that zero-tolerance leaks into our everyday lives, impacting what you and I are reading and seeing online.
