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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by throwaway2245 on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:43PM (#25305350)
>she works for the corporation and get paid, no matter how great she is, she has to follow the corporate culture and norms

Doesn't this cut both ways? Google employed her to critique the company's ethics; she is critiquing the company's ethics - as such, she is literally doing the job she was employed to do.

If Google doesn't want that role to exist or wants a puppet to do it, why did Google employ her in the first place?

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by damnencryption on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:53PM (#25305475)
Same way google and big tech companies fund pro-privacy groups. The intent is not to have stronger privacy laws that doesn't benefit them.
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