Re:Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a ...
by jseliger on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:26PM
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There's also an awful lot we don't know; we don't know who at Google leaked, what they leaked, and what their other motivations may have been. Even the word "credible" is pretty tricky here.
It may be another of these situations: https://quillette.com/2018/10/17/the-scandal-at-ubc-keeps-gr....
Having watched friends go through similar trials over bogus accusations that stem from a wide array of causes, I'm leery of the way many of these stories are reported.
Re:Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a ...
by bronson on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:00PM
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> He just wanted what Larry wouldn't give him.
This... reads differently now.
Re:Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a ...
by tinkerteller on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:25PM
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This is really on Google. Companies shouldn't be providing cover to sexual predators. They just made sure Andy keep abusing in his even more powerful position as CEO of startup. Shame on them. They have really divorced themselves from ethics.
A commenter claimed to have been privy to the real story:
> The truth seems to be both (a) unpleasant for Andy and (b) unremarkable to the rest of us. In other words, it wasn't his choice, but there wasn't a scandalous smoking gun either. He just wanted what Larry wouldn't give him. Nothing that would be front page news.
I don't think that the commenter was necessarily bullshitting at the time. The story conveyed to those inside Google may have been that there was sex involved, not necessarily that the act allegedly involved coercion. Even in 4 years, a lot has changed in how people interpret such accusations.