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Why is it easy to believe all tech companies are filled with foreign agents but hard to believe that any of them could rise to senior management? If anything, a
by dawhizkid 7y ago
Why is it easy to believe all tech companies are filled with foreign agents but hard to believe that any of them could rise to senior management? If anything, a desirable goal of getting hired as a foreign agent at one of these companies would be to rise to an executive rank
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoWhat Thiel is alleging isn't merely that some VP in Google is leaking secrets. He's suggesting Google leadership has been "thoroughly infiltrated", to the point that Thiel can see the infiltration based only on Google's public behavior.
- nemothekid 7y agoBecause Thiel is making the claim, that not only are they senior management, but they are both actively influencing the company from working with the USG as well as transporting, what maybe now Google's most important IP back to China. This would mean either large swaths of Google senior management are complicit or negligent, and that Google has no, or easily defeated safeguards around that IP. If Google had a track record of playing fast and loose with data, I'd more seriously consider his claim. In fact if it was coming from anyone else I'd consider the claim more seriously. Aside: I'm not downvoting you as you have a fair question - I don't know why you are negative.