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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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