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Honestly I’m an extremely proficient English speaker and don’t know what that sentence was referring to, or trying to say.

• ggm 6y ago
  Google claimed to have higher regard for equity in the workplace and to correcting structural bias at all levels. The AI ethics people were meeting structural process and behaviour around their own work, which i believe they felt fundamentally contradicts that. They did not receive support to say it outside the company. Ultimately in at least one case, they probably broke their terms and conditions of employment and have been terminated. Looking at it from the perspective of what people say they expect from the modern workplace, it wasn't a good alignment. People expect equity. They expect to be able to speak their mind. Within limits people can and do, but some staff have found the informal rules of what you can say about Google were not what they think they wanted. Fired for cause, and at-will terms of employment are entirely normal. Nobody can seriously say Google broke the law, absent strong evidence. If you hire somebody to occupy a senior role, but constrain their ability to self assert, its a bit contradictory. What do you think society at large wants, from the entities which now control the vast majority of our private state as individuals?
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