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This behavior starts all the way at the top with Sergey. See Google's leaked internal all-hands[1] after Trump won basically calling for the end of the world wi
by nodesocket 6y ago
This behavior starts all the way at the top with Sergey. See Google's leaked internal all-hands[1] after Trump won basically calling for the end of the world without any regard to employees who may be fiscally conservative or Trump supporters. Google is by far the worse of the big bay area tech companies in terms of stifling speech, equality of outcome policies, and being an echo chamber.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/leaked-video-from-alphabet-tgif-meeting-after-president-trump-election.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/leaked-video-from-alphabet-t...
- spoonjim 6y agoGoogle doesn’t have any obligation to its Trump supporters. It is an entity outside of its employees and its decisions issue from the CEO and Board. If you don’t like their decisions don’t work there.
- throwaway3699 6y agoIronically I've found YouTube's policies to be far more liberal & open than Twitter or Facebook's. I think Sergey was wrong to kick off about Trump so publicly, but he is also the guy that pulled Google out of China on principle alone. A mixed bag, for sure.
- gerash 6y agoTrump was and is a clown. Brin, in that video, was expressing his personal feelings (that he doesn't like Trump) being a refugee himself. He was not expressing company policies. That was supposed to be an internal forum. From what I've heard executives treated internal q&a sessions as public press conferences afterwards and try to be "politically correct". Not a good outcome for anyone involved