Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is testifying before congress this Tuesday on Google’s political bias and business practices. If I were in that room, these are the questions I’d ask him:
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You said "much of what was in that memo is fair to debate." What exactly? Why have you kept your employees walking on eggshells by refusing to clarify the boundaries of acceptable speech?https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/a-question-for-google-ceo-sundar-pichai/536535/ …
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From the meetings I attended, your lack of straight answers, and the evidence in my lawsuit and the Youtube recruiter lawsuit, it’s clear that Google discriminates based on race and gender in hiring and promotion. Why not just admit it? Or, better yet, stop it?pic.twitter.com/ev6vlBrm7x
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The week you fired me, a town hall discussion to address employees’ concerns was scheduled. You canceled it, citing harassment of those who posted questions, but this doesn’t make sense because the questions can be posted anonymously. Why haven’t you rescheduled it?
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What differentiates the gender difference research you and Susan Wojcicki cited to defend Google and mine?https://mashable.com/2018/01/29/google-youtube-women-in-tech-diversity-town-hall/ …
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Most of your employees agree that Google doesn’t accept a diversity of political opinions, and political minorities are suffering because of it. What are you doing to end political intolerance at Google?pic.twitter.com/wb8HvuqoMY
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Do your employees know that "Google has an army of lawyers who are actively lobbying the NLRB to cut back worker rights, not just in James's case, but in cases of discussing their working conditions with each other"?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=384XLaqrSrw …
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The reason they don't provide clear definitions of acceptable speech is: 1) this allows them to ban a wide range of viewpoints without formally admitting what they're doing; 2) it makes people afraid to say anything, which is the most effective way to silence all dissent.
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Because 'unacceptable speech' is like pornography - hard to define exactly, but: 'you know it when you hear it'.
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