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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dictum on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:11PM (#14973117)
Can't speak for him, but I imagine his thought process was:

This is an internal matter, and the intended audience is Google employees, so to prevent attracting attention from the wrong audience and maximize attention from Googlers, I'll post it in the internal board...

It doesn't help that Google apparently encouraged employees expressing their thoughts.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tunesmith on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:11PM (#14973665)
Yeah honestly that part strikes me as being a bit weird. I've also never worked for a very huge company, but when you've got companies that are so large that they want to basically start embedding your entire lifestyle into it (free food, culture, etc) then it seems like a recipe for this kind of conflict of interest. There it starts to blur the line between "You shouldn't express these thoughts at work" with "You shouldn't have these thoughts in the first place."
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