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Suppression of free speech is the most dangerous - Eventually people reach a breaking point and then they snap all at once. I think that is a cause of extremely
by jondubois 9y ago
Suppression of free speech is the most dangerous - Eventually people reach a breaking point and then they snap all at once. I think that is a cause of extremely violent events like WW2 and most revolutions. Oppressed people start quietly labelling who their enemies are (often without proper justification) and wait for consensus to build.
After this, although I disagree with the engineer, I don't think that Google is the kind of company I would want to work for.
This event is eerily reminiscent of a comment I made on HN 2 months ago about big corporations and suppression of free speech (see last line): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527934
I think that if these companies get too big and keep suppressing free speech, eventually they will get mutinied from the inside.
- falcolas 9y agoI'm not sure any mutiny will have a chance of survival, for one simple reason - too many people want to work for those companies, even if only to have that company on their resume. If a mutiny did occur, all the company would need to do is fire the loudest voices in the name of diversity, let the rest quit quietly, and replace them with the millions still banging at the doors to get in. You'd need someone at a C level solidly on your side for a mutiny to succeed, and you don't usually get to a career C level by having strong ideological stances (aside from, perhaps, a strong love of capitalism and how it lines your pockets).