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posted by martyb on Friday August 11 2017, @02:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the hurry-up-and-stop dept.

Google is struggling to discuss the recent diversity memo controversy internally:

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, canceled a scheduled all-hands staff meeting—moments before it was scheduled to begin—meant to address concerns over a controversial essay published by former employee James Damore.

In an email to staff, Pichai explained that questions from employees had been leaked and that, in some cases, specific employees' identities were revealed, exposing them to harassment and threats. Instead of today's large-scale meeting, which was to be livestreamed to Google's 60,000 employees worldwide, smaller groups will meet sometime in the future.

"We had hoped to have a frank open discussion today as we always do to bring us together and move forward. But our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally," Pichai said in the email.

Also at CNET.


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  • (Score: 2) by Tangaroa on Friday August 11 2017, @09:07PM (1 child)

    by Tangaroa (682) on Friday August 11 2017, @09:07PM (#552585) Homepage

    ArsTechnica, The Register, Slashdot, Reddit, HackerNews, Tweakers.

    Hacker News is censored. They banned me for saying that Ed Snowden had not released evidence of the NSA listening in on the content of everyone's phone calls when he hadn't according to every news article about him. The news said the NSA was saving metadata, not the complete conversations, but HN had a pro-Snowden party line to push and could not have it interrupted by appeals to accuracy.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 12 2017, @06:25AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 12 2017, @06:25AM (#552770) Journal
    And I got banned from Ars Technica for going skeptical on a front page global warming story. There's something to be said for sites that don't ban you for having the wrong opinion.