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Google has terminated four employees for allegedly sharing sensitive information after weeks of internal dissent related to the mistrust of leadership. At least two of the employees were at the center of recent worker protests in San Francisco.
In a memo sent to staffers on Monday, three members of Google's Security and Investigations Team wrote that the four workers were fired after investigations into their behavior concluded that they were engaged in wrongdoing.
"There's been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally," according to the memo, titled "Securing our data." "We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work. To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees' materials and work."
Google confirmed the memo, which was first reported by Bloomberg. The company declined to comment further or confirm which individual employees were terminated. But Rebecca Rivers, who previously spoke out about Google's contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, tweeted she was one of them. Last week, a group of 20 Google employees in San Francisco protested the interrogation of Rivers and another employee, Laurence Berland, who had been placed on sudden and indefinite administrative leave for allegedly sharing sensitive information.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:16PM (10 children)
Millenials did nothing with punk.
Boomers co-opted punk and turned it into bland, corporate rock.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 26 2019, @11:42PM (6 children)
This is also true. Green Day.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday November 27 2019, @12:54AM (5 children)
Oh gods, I was actually thinking about how the Sex Pistols wound up with no money, despite kind of, almost inventing punk. But yeah, Green Day. Blah.
I listened to London Calling the other day, coincidentally, and I had forgotten how good it really is. Not many double albums have no weak songs,
although you could argue that "Revolution Rock" on side four is not that great. The rest are amazing though.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 27 2019, @01:21AM (4 children)
That actually sounds exactly how punk should be.
I've been in more of a Misfits and Black Flag mood lately myself but, yeah, you can't go wrong with the Sex Pistols.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:27AM (3 children)
I am not really familiar with the Misfits, but Black Flag were pretty cool.
Don't tell anybody, but I actually think the Sex Pistols were a bit shit. As far as I can tell they wrote about 5 good songs, and none after they sacked Glenn Matlock, who might have been the only talent in the band.
I borrowed a Public Image LTD album off someone once, but it was just John Lydon masturbating.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:55AM (2 children)
Punk ain't exactly supposed to be "good" though. As a general rule, the better the musicians are, the less punk the music is. The main exception I'd make there is Social Distortion. Mostly what it's supposed to be is pissed off in a way you can relate to.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:54PM (1 child)
I don't disagree at all.
Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind, as when I wrote that comment I was enjoying "Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Yes, which is about as far from punk as it is possible to get.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 29 2019, @02:50AM
Two words:Tiny Tim.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @12:45AM
Was früher Punk war, ist heute Alt-Right [www.srf.ch].
Oh, look, an aristarchus sub came in handy, for once. Good thing janrinok censored him!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:05PM (1 child)
You can replace "punk" with most any genre you want: Country, grunge, alternative, hip-hop, R&B, electronica, metal, even bluegrass and folk to an extent. The suits have decided that bland, corporate rock using 4 chords [youtube.com] is what sells, and they want to maximize sales. They've never given a damn about expression, art, etc.
The main exception is classical, and that has an entirely different set of problems, mostly because of the attempt to make it look all classy and refined with tuxes and smooth playing when Beethoven was punk as all get out and should be played that way.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:58PM
Quite right. I think of Taylor Swift, Beyonce and all those chart acts as producing Big Macs.
The record companies love it, as it is the same thing every time, and they know how to sell it, but there is nothing creative about it.