After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him

Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by Guthur on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:52PM (#28102590)

Because some of us are getting really tired of these witch hunts. Was he an ahole, possibly. Did Google value his contribution, probably. Did he commit any crime, doubtful.

Humans are all deeply flawed and if you were to pick enough sound bites about someone across a long enough period of time you could paint them as monsters. This current climate of holier than thou rhetoric is becoming increasingly poisonous.

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Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by jakelazaroff on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:19PM (#28102757)

It’s a “witch hunt” when someone doesn’t get a promotion? No one’s calling for his arrest. They’re just saying that someone who abused his power to bully people should not be rewarded with more power over people.

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Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by Guthur on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:34PM (#28102853)

And so what. If you work at take it up with them. Or if it's bad for the company or will hurt them. Or if you are shareholder take it up at the next meeting.

You and I have no idea of the context unless we are actually there. It's frankly none of our business. All these journalists and keyboard sycophants live to pull something down and destroy.

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Re:After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullyi... by joshuamorton on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:09PM (#28103039)

How would a shareholder know without such an article?

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