<story><title>Ex-Google engineer describing the company&apos;s role in China censorship</title><url>https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yetanfou</author><text>It is an odd thing that a company can on the one hand become known as the one firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like &amp;#x27;gender discrimination&amp;#x27; because that engineer was deemed to lack a moral compass, while on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania&amp;#x27;s Ingsoc [1] [2]. As if these people are so blind-sided by their own ideology that they do not recognise their own moral compasses twirling as if they&amp;#x27;re in the Bermuda triangle and the &amp;#x27;no&amp;#x27; being struck from their previous motto of &amp;#x27;do no evil&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ingsoc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ingsoc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abc.net.au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2018-09-18&amp;#x2F;china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship&amp;#x2F;10200278&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abc.net.au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2018-09-18&amp;#x2F;china-social-credit-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>&lt;i&gt;firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like &amp;#x27;gender discrimination&amp;#x27;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not an accurate summary of Damore&amp;#x27;s motives, or the reasons for firing him.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania&amp;#x27;s Ingsoc&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Corporations are amoral by design. So I don&amp;#x27;t find this odd at all, but is an incredibly dangerous development.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ex-Google engineer describing the company&apos;s role in China censorship</title><url>https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yetanfou</author><text>It is an odd thing that a company can on the one hand become known as the one firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like &amp;#x27;gender discrimination&amp;#x27; because that engineer was deemed to lack a moral compass, while on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania&amp;#x27;s Ingsoc [1] [2]. As if these people are so blind-sided by their own ideology that they do not recognise their own moral compasses twirling as if they&amp;#x27;re in the Bermuda triangle and the &amp;#x27;no&amp;#x27; being struck from their previous motto of &amp;#x27;do no evil&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ingsoc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ingsoc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abc.net.au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2018-09-18&amp;#x2F;china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship&amp;#x2F;10200278&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abc.net.au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2018-09-18&amp;#x2F;china-social-credit-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topmonk</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not about a moral compass, it&amp;#x27;s about attracting top talent. The universities push this ideology, so if you want to get the alumni from the universities to work for you, you have to abide by the tenets.</text></comment>