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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by that_guy_iain on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:40AM (#25299971)
> Her e-mail identifies that you can speak on racism and sexism as much as you want, but all of your speech will be routed to /dev/null.

I think the fact people need to go through HR to give Feedback means the speech isn't going to /dev/null. People seem to take her speech very seriously and don't want to feel her wrath.

In fact, Google even appeared to take her concerns onboard after she got a lawyer and only threatened to sue. She just seems to expect more which is the entitlement I was talking about.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by throwaway2245 on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:24PM (#25310251)
(My intention above was to say that Timnit Gebru does have that privilege, and is using it to speak for other people who don't have that privilege)
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