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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by wtvanhest on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:44PM (#23432229)
I worked at Intel for a brief 3 month summer internship in finance (2010). One thing that struck me was that I was not allowed to put certain words in presentations because they didn't want those words used against them in court. Its been a long time so I don't remember what words, but that was a long time after the first set of anti-trust actions.

Maybe someone that has been there more recently can attest or counter my point, but it seemed to at least leave a surface wound on the culture.

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by mrep on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:13PM (#23432615)
Not intel, but I definitely have seen training videos about not saying "dominate the market" or "crush the competition".
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by pradn on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:09PM (#23435453)
There's similar guidance inside Google. These exact phrases are used as "no-no"s.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by kudokatz on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:19PM (#23432690)
There has been official training at multiple, large tech companies other than Intel specifically geared towards preventing even accidental use of language that can be taken out-of-context. The practice is alive and well.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by riskyfive on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:57PM (#23433203)
Uber had training that said you could never call a driver an employee or anything related to that, they were 'driver partners' or some such with words that imply a platform user
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by walshemj on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:18PM (#23433465)
Thats slightly diferent - there is a lot of law about employees status - mainly because the IRS doesn't want to lose out any $ not for any liberal concern for employees
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by refurb on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:12PM (#23432608)
I work in healthcare, a highly regulated industry and we do the same thing. It’s to the point that we’ve developed euphemisms for all these words.
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