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There are very interesting new developments with Kevin Cernekee. Another conservative in his right-wing group at Google made the following accusations accordin
by belltaco 7y ago
There are very interesting new developments with Kevin Cernekee.
Another conservative in his right-wing group at Google made the following accusations according to [1]:
>Among the allegations, Wacker claims Cernekee did the following:
>Requested to “put together a group donation in the name of ‘freespeech@Google’” to help fund Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank.
>Called alt-right crowdfunding platform WeResearchr his “friends.”
>Defended the Golden State Skinheads, which espouses neo-Nazi ideology on its web site, in a situation where a rally turned violent. He also claimed the term “skinhead” had some “unfortunate baggage.”
>Started a thread criticizing how Google’s Chrome Web Store had removed the Coincidence Detector app, a Chrome plugin that wraps three sets of parentheses (known as “echoes”) around names on web pages that appear to be Jewish. According to Wacker, Cernekee wrote “I was just surprised that Google banned an app for adding silly punctuation” and “Google stands for free speech and we should have thoroughly discussed the implications of censoring the app, rather than succumbing to knee-jerk reactions just because an internet journalist wrote a misinformed article to stoke outrage.”
Kevin has his defense included in the article, but doesn't seem to directly deny doing any of the above. I am assuming they're true.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/google-whistleblower-cernekee-pushed-alt-right-views-former-colleague.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/google-whistleblower-cerneke...
The last item is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses