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> At least until the companies figure out how to crack down on whoever leaks internal discussions to the press. Considering these companies have tens of thousa
by dunpeal 8y ago
> At least until the companies figure out how to crack down on whoever leaks internal discussions to the press.
Considering these companies have tens of thousands of employees, that will never happen.
It's impossible to prevent leaks with these kinds of numbers, and you can be sure the media would raise a huge stink if even one employee is punished for leaking. They would ruthlessly protect their sources.
It's just very unfortunate how politics is becoming such a major issue in what's supposed to be the leading edge of American technology. Instead of innovation, technical merit, sound engineering, and all the other things these employments are supposed to be about.
Politics and divisive discourse and posturing are squeezing out the important matters, and making people uncomfortable at work, a place supposed to be about work.
- lovich 8y agoYou cannot get to the scale of Facebook or Google without being political. These are tech companies in that they sell tech. They are not tech companies as in parties who are only interested in building the best products using technology. As far as how they act silicon valley is turning just as bad as Wall Street
- dunpeal 8y ago> You cannot get to the scale of Facebook or Google without being political. There's plenty of counterexamples. There's huge companies much bigger than FB and Google that were never political outside of tech. Even in tech, you have Microsoft for example. I don't recall them ever being political in the 90s when they got huge. In fact, they don't seem political right now.
- lovich 8y agoThey all lobby, that is political just as a general example. Once you get big enough even the lack of action is a political choice. My point is that when you are at that scale your very existence is political, so there is no sense in trying to pretend politics does not exist.