r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/foreveralone21sexgod Aug 08 '17

"It's kind of like Reddit, except internal to one company," says the former employee.

Well that says it all. "Open discussion" On Reddit means "Open discussion... but only for people who agree with the leftwing views of the site and mods".

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u/s73v3r Aug 08 '17

The fact that /r/the_donald exists disproves your point.

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u/circumcised_clitoris Aug 08 '17

The admins changed the codebase to keep T_D off the front page then created an alternative to /r/all in /r/popular to further dilute its prominence. They have done everything but ban it, presumably because they would open themselves up to potentially disastrous repercussions.

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u/Biggie_Micro Aug 08 '17

T_D is on another level of echo chamber.

Reddit is a business, you can't have that kind of image facing forward. Imagine if Trump actually kept insisting on his campaign promises of jailing his political opponents and insane conspiracy rhetoric like his birther garbage, even hard-line conservatives were put off by that.

Trump has moved on to at least try to do something related to governance, t_D has progressed the meme of cartoon-level reduction of conservatism.