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Western political culture feels like a softer, distributed version of the social credit score. How large of a distribution of opinions are you allowed to hold w
by akjsdhfkjhask 7y ago
Western political culture feels like a softer, distributed version of the social credit score. How large of a distribution of opinions are you allowed to hold while keeping a job in the tech sector? We know from the examples of political firings that the range is not infinite. And people have gotten "cancelled" from private communications being made public on more than one occasion.
Because it's a volunteer, private process and not the government doing it, we still call it "freedom" but it really doesn't feel like an open society anymore. But I do acknowledge that we still have it way better in the West than they do in China (for now).
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoA vast majority of opinions are allowed. Religious, atheist. hate the govt, love the govt. In the 50 dev startup I was working in we had the conservative guy (vp of engr) who was a republican who kept trying to defend trump. We had another guy on the other side who didn't trust the govt and didn't want to go through security at the airport. And all varieties in between. What's not allowed? outright misogyny, outright expressed racism. Russians and Chinese citizens in my company, along with us citizens, europeans. These aren't exactly outliers. The tech world has been this tolerant over my 30 years of working. It's only gotten more tolerant over time. There's a hell of a lot less acceptance of sexist crap though - hard to argue against that change.