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Lawsuit: Google employees were fired for upholding “Don’t be evil” code:
Three former Google software engineers who sued the company yesterday claim they were fired for following Google's famous "Don't be evil" mantra.
"Google terminated each plaintiffs' employment with it for adhering to the directive 'Don't be evil' and calling out activity by Google that they each believed betrayed that directive," according to the complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court by Rebecca Rivers, Sophie Waldman, and Paul Duke. The ex-employees say Google falsely blamed them for a data leak after they circulated an internal petition.
The lawsuit notes that the Google Code of Conduct "that each full-time Google employee is required to sign as a condition of employment" specifically instructs them not to be evil. The ex-employees say they tried to uphold the "Don't be evil" policy in August 2019 by circulating a petition "requesting that Google affirm that it would not collaborate with CBP [US Customs and Border Protection] or ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] with respect to enforcement of the Trump border control policies."
"[E]ach plaintiff protested Google's engagement in supporting BCP policies that resulted in separation of families and 'caging' of immigrants who were seeking asylum in the United States," the complaint said.
Google's firings of Rivers, Waldman, and Duke are also part of an ongoing case in which the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Google.
Previously:
(2018-10-13) Google Leak: The Good Censor
(2018-09-14) "Senior Google Scientist" Resigns over Chinese Search Engine Censorship Project
(2018-05-19) "Don't be Evil" Disappearing From Google's Code of Conduct
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @12:20AM (9 children)
Stopped reading. You've clearly never been in the system. It most certainly IS slavery. It's ownership of a human being (by the state), forced labor (rented out to corporations by the state), and that human is not paid a fair wage, if at all.
Die in a fire, you inhuman piece of shit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @12:49AM (1 child)
Welcome to SoylentNews where the sociopaths abound and white supremacists work on radicalization and recruitment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @11:37AM
TBF, I've been running a 20 year propaganda campaign aimed at the exact opposite, and it's shown some pretty notable success. Mostly by getting the attention of the people who have the actual ability and position to effect changes by building better systems and calling out bad ones.
Societies change slowly. It's a lifetime task. Probably longer, really.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 03 2021, @01:23AM (4 children)
What is "the system" here?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @07:11AM (3 children)
The US for profit prison system.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 03 2021, @01:21PM (2 children)
You've just covered two million people out of something like 4-5 billion people. The original poster wasn't just talking about the US prison system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @05:06PM (1 child)
The very first words of this thread:
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 03 2021, @07:47PM
At that point, you're talking billions of people not just prisoners in the US.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday December 03 2021, @05:59PM (1 child)
Completely legal slavery!
13th Ammendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 06 2021, @08:35AM
Have you tried not committing any crimes where the punishment is incarceration?