Google Fires Republican Engineer Who Spoke Out Abut 'Outrage Mobs'

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  1. Space_Time

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    Are 'outrage mobs' a real thing? Is this a threat to free speech? Or did Google do the right thing?

     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How is it possible that in a country sorta evenly divided along political lines, that only liberals get hired at tech companies? I smell leftist hate, bigotry and discrimination at work yet again.

    So where is all that famous liberal tolerance and love affair with diversity?
     
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    Progressives control the vast majority of MSM and social media, they rule it with an iron fist.
     
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    Such the 'tolerant' left. :roll:
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Google is a private company, meaning free speech doesn't apply. Conservatives need to find or build their own places if they are not going to be welcome in the so-called open market. If liberals are the only ones using the big ticket social media, they will just turn on each other, further fracturing the Democrat party...
     
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    I recommend staying away from these flame bait threads, I ran a quick web search and this article is only on RW sites.
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It changes nothing about what I said. Conservatives are in the line of fire when it comes to liberal dominated social media. They are simply better served finding or building their own sites, particularly if liberal sites are going to openly discriminate against their views or disseminate fake news to push the liberal agenda...
     
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    Google is a publicly traded company!!!
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    So you are saying that liberals are the employers, and conservatives are the employees. Finally, someone is noticing!

    Yes, liberals make the world go round.
     
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    Doesn't matter. Even if he were fired for his political views, and so far there is no evidence he was only speculation, political views are not a protected class. At least not on a federal level. Maybe his state has extra protections.
     
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    I thought most business people were conservative?

    Oh! Well you still have Rupert Murdoch
     
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    They don't consider Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or other liberal companies "business". Trump U scamming old people, trump scamming Atlanta, trump scamming private contractors, trump scamming the American voters, now THAT'S business.
     
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    2 yrs ago Google fired someone for doing exactly what they asked their employees to do. And he never even said anything wrong and had it backed up with respected research.

    The guy wasn’t a flaming Lib but he wasn’t Conservative either. But he did cite facts that Liberals didn’t like so they canned him for PC purposes.

    For anyone who doesn’t know about the incident, I’ll let you do your own research.
     
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    Wow, a single tear rolls down my cheek for Conservatives. Those snowflakes need to look in the mirror when it comes to false accusations. They need to grow a spine!!!!
     
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    In regards to who controls media, it may be explained by who has more of a desire to control narratives, and who has the greater desire to engineer society.
     
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    Sounds GOOD.

    Where do you see a problem?
     
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    Ideally, all perspectives, regardless of how controversial, are given equal treatment on any platform which is open for use or consumption by the general public. Bad ideas, regardless of where they come from are best left out in the open where they can be dismantled for everyone to see. There can be no complaints where the intent is to moderate blatant calls to violence, and libel or slander.
     
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    The answer is pretty obvious, but you and others might interpret it as an insult to conservatives.
     
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    Why would a LW site publish it?
     
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    If Fox news were to run the story I would accept it and not fox business site.
     
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    ... they are huge Authoritarians in Big Tech, just like the Democrats. They will not allow dissent, an open marketplace of ideas, or anything that does not forward their power and control.
     
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    Diversity? Republicans are mostly straight white men.
     
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    Or more accurately, smart people know when to keep their mouths shut around the wrong people. Sometimes, it bites you in the ass like it did for James Demore, when he didn't realize that logic & facts are bigoted=) Like...there are less women in tech, because less women are interested in tech. That's misogynistic, didn't you know=) /derp Also, all coders know the deal. How many guys growing up in the 80s, who lead much of the video game industry, knew girl gamers? Uuuuum, barely any. But if you're WOKE you would argue, there should be an equal number of female leaders regardless. That ignore the fact that more men have been into gaming far longer than women, which explains the disparity. That's of course, tossed aside for the typical excuse of, "guys are jerks and prevented girls from becoming gamers all these decades..."

    Hopefully, he'll be laughing in the end when he collects a settlement. Hopefully.
     
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    Duh. Why would the lying, liberal MSM report on a story like this?
    I don't think this is a flame bait thread. The leftist posters on here like to label threads that they don't like as flame bait threads. This is a fair story and the RW media has a right to post it.

    Nothing liberals or anyone else uses to power their equipment, machines, instruments, light up their homes, for transportation could have happened without the genius of Nikola Tesla. He was NOT a liberal and it was no secret that he despised Muslims, didn't trust Jews, and thought the brown man was lazy. Zuckerberg would be living in his parents basement if it wasn't for Tesla.
     
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    Yeah right, a reminder, two late night comedians made millions for pointing false and misleading stories by Fox News.
     

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