Wired: The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:59 PM
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Wired: The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google
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Wired: The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dirty-war-over-diversity-inside-google/

        In interviews with WIRED, 15 current Google employees accuse
        coworkers of inciting outsiders to harass rank-and-file
        employees who are minority advocates, including queer and
        transgender employees. Since August, screenshots from Google's
        internal discussion forums, including personal information,
        have been displayed on sites including Breitbart and Vox
        Popoli, a blog run by alt-right author Theodore Beale, who
        goes by the name Vox Day. Other screenshots were included in a
        161-page lawsuit that Damore filed in January, alleging that
        Google discriminates against whites, males, and conservatives.
        What followed, the employees say, was a wave of harassment. On
        forums like 4chan, members linked advocates' names with their
        social-media accounts. At least three employees had their
        phone numbers, addresses, and deadnames (a transgender
        person's name prior to transitioning) exposed. Google site
        reliability engineer Liz Fong-Jones, a trans woman, says she
        was the target of harassment, including violent threats and
        degrading slurs based on gender identity, race, and sexual
        orientation. More than a dozen pages of personal information
        about another employee were posted to Kiwi Farms, which New
        York has called "the web's biggest community of stalkers."

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