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Folks need to grasp the distinction between the company requiring employees to be careful about using specific terms like 'market dominance' vs. speaking up. U
by jariel 6y ago
Folks need to grasp the distinction between the company requiring employees to be careful about using specific terms like 'market dominance' vs. speaking up.
Using terms like 'market dominance' may have legal implications, they surely will have populist implications as anti-trust issues are as much political as anything else.
So instructing staff to 'not speak about Google's market position' is very reasonable, because words have power and implications beyond what most employees probably believe when they're using them.
This is somewhat different from asking people to 'not have opinions' and a totally different league from trying to suppress whistle-blowers etc..