Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by roenxi on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:26AM
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It was that one from late last yer. Might have been https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl... . There wasn't anything there that was particularly scandalous; it was just a really interesting that this was the state of affairs inside Google.
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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:14AM
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I mean, it's OK if management have political views, as long as those views don't influence search results.
As long as the experimental process is rigorous and the people are incentivised to use the right metric (and the metric isn't politically biased), then it should be fine.
However, upon making that argument I find myself concerned at the possibility that Google's corporate interests (and perhaps some political interests) may shape which questions get asked, and thus the direction the service takes.
It's quite analagous to Chomsky's views of news organisations in Manufacturing Consent.