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Or coming from a progressive view point at all. It may be coming from a business perspective of "this drama is bad for business."

• lhnz 9y ago
  On the contrary, being seen as ideologically homogenous isn't going to be good for a business that is meant to provide information to all of the world. Google are edging ever closer to regulation, and when that happens their stock price will tumble.
  • true_religion 9y ago
    I have my doubts that they'd be regulated or actually come "under fire" for firing someone who caused an uproar about gender equality in the workplace. Unless you are being discriminated against, or someone else is... I don't really think its' a normal employees place to be a political firebrand and post invective messages on the internal company boards. Honestly if you say something that pisses off 60% of your coworkers to the point that they say they will quit... then you're not a good fit for the company.
    • lhnz 9y ago
      I don't think this is the tipping point. I think this is a sign of things to come... It's a case of leverage. The more Google can be shown to be biased internally or overly 'left', the easier it will be for other countries or the current US government to make the case that they have too much power and act upon this. Steve Bannon has already said that he wishes to treat tech giants as public utilities [0]. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/steve-bannon-google-facebook/535473/?utm_source=atltw https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/steve...