Yeah, the firing of Timnit Gebru strongly reminded me of the Michael Lynn saga: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/cisco_harasses.html https://www.s

Yeah, the firing of Timnit Gebru strongly reminded me of the Michael Lynn saga: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/cisco_harasses.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/cisco_harasse... I think the analogy breaks down a little since hackers were generally outsiders to the companies (even Michael Lynn), and hiring them and starting programs around them was the thing Microsoft did to fix their relationship to the community, whereas the folks here were already insiders at Google, but maybe that was the problem, that they were explicitly hired as academics with the expectation that they would keep doing the same work, rather than internally focussed researchers working on improving the products and systems being created.