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The Balkanization Of Technology -- On The #GoogleManifesto

The contents of the Google Manifesto, and the reaction to its publishing, speaks to a much larger problem within Silicon Valley. If tech giants don't stop alienating employees and users that disagree with their pet ideologies, they're going to cannibalize themselves into bankruptcy. ----- Tweet aggressively at me: https://www.twitter.com/shortfatotaku My Gaming Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NoTalentGaming My Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/shortfatotaku SFO/NTG Discord: https://discord.gg/n2Whky9 Support The Show: https://www.patreon.com/shortfatotaku ----- Sources: The Google Manifesto - http://googlemanifesto.com/ Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral' - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google The Google employee who wrote the controversial Google manifesto was fired after CEO Sundar Pichai called it 'not OK' - http://uk.businessinsider.com/google-sundar-pichai-anti-diversity-manifesto-fired-2017-8 Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai - https://www.blog.google/topics/diversity/note-employees-ceo-sundar-pichai/ Read Google’s Response to An Employee’s Controversial Diversity Memo - http://fortune.com/2017/08/07/google-diversity-memo/ Jordan Peterson's interview of James Damore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU INTERNAL MESSAGES SHOW SOME GOOGLERS SUPPORTED FIRED ENGINEER’S MANIFESTO - https://www.wired.com/story/internal-messages-james-damore-google-memo/ James Damore, the Google employee fired for his controversial manifesto, is (almost certainly) not a victim of a free-speech violation - http://www.businessinsider.com/james-damore-google-anti-diversity-manifesto-free-speech-2017-8 Why ‘Free Speech’ Couldn’t Save That Google Engineer’s Job - http://time.com/money/4891126/why-free-speech-couldnt-save-that-google-engineers-job/ I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism How You Can Use The Google Manifesto To Advance Women, Not Gender Stereotypes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/averyblank/2017/08/11/how-you-can-use-the-google-manifesto-to-advance-women-not-gender-stereotypes/#91f965114eb3 Google Firing Its 'Manifesto' Engineer Is a Powerful Lesson in Emotional Intelligence (in One Sentence) - https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/google-firing-its-manifesto-engineer-is-a-lesson-i.html An update on our commitment to fight terror content online - https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/08/an-update-on-our-commitment-to-fight.html MundaneMatt's 15 buckaroos - https://twitter.com/mundanematt/status/894338299661135872 The Act Man's Strike - https://twitter.com/TheActMan_YT/status/895578496168206336 Musical Anti Hero's PM - https://twitter.com/TheMusiAH/status/895814997632311296 Perspective - http://perspectiveapi.com/ Google cancels staff meeting after gamergate-style attack on employees - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/10/google-cancels-meeting-james-damore-memo-alt-right-gamergate No, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science - https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manifesto-isnt-sexist-or-anti-diversity-its-science/article35903359/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond - http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-respond/ Stop Equating Science with Truth - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/08/evolutionary_psychology_is_the_most_obvious_example_of_how_science_is_flawed.html Science Must Fall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14 Google memo drama really is about free speech - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/09/googles-attack-dissenting-speech-normal-walter-olson-column/549536001/ Rebels of Google: Senior Management ‘On The Verge Of Tears’ After Trump Win - http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/09/rebels-of-google-management-verge-of-tears-trump-win/ The Alt-Tech Revolution - https://medium.com/@getongab/the-alt-tech-revolution-has-begun-a5c9d62ae727 Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O. - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sundar-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html GOOGLE'S CEO MUST ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT MEMO - https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ceo-must-answer-these-questions-about-that-memo/