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Google management should try treating the cause rather than the symptom.
by Despegar 8y ago
Google management should try treating the cause rather than the symptom.
- wutbrodo 8y agoI was at Google during the time period when they shifted from leaks being rare to "literally every non-public thing told to the wider company got leaked". I can't say there was any particular cause, at least at the time, beyond just getting large enough that the probability of having a few assholes take advantage of management transparency goes up. Note that I'm very much not talking about leaks for perceived moral reasons, like the China search engine, pentagon contracts, etc; these make up a small fraction of the leaks, which are more around things like product and feature launches.
- cbsmith 8y agoI think you've made the same mistake the article has: presuming that they aren't treating the cause.
- abc-xyz 8y agoIf they had any intention of treating the cause then they would've abandoned the Dragonfly project. It's violating all their own AI principles, and I've never seen Google receive so much backlash by their own employees, human rights organizations, as well as the public as a whole. It's proof that there's no evil they won't stoop to as long as they can make a couple of extra bucks.