[This article is from the Unz Review where it appears under the title: A New Martin Luther?A Russian Conservative on James Damore, with an introduction by Anatoly Karlin. The article was prompted by the firing of Google employee, James Damore, for the offense of circulating a memorandum entitled: Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber: How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion. The full text of Damore's memorandum is available here.]
By Egor Kholmogorov
Google fires employee James Damore for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.
– You persecute your employees for having opinions and violate the rights of White men, Centrists, and Conservatives.
A conversation just like or similar to this one recently took place in the office of one of modern information market monsters, the Google Corporation.
Illustration to the Google scandal. James Damore fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes”. Source: Screenshot of Instragram user bluehelix.
Google knows almost everything about us, including the contents of our emails, our addresses, our voice samples (OK Google), our favorite stuff, and, sometimes, our sexual preferences. Google used to be on the verge of literally looking at the world with our own eyes through Google Glass, but this prospect appears to have been postponed, probably temporarily. However, the threat of manipulating public opinion through search engine algorithms has been discussed in the West for a long while, even to the point of becoming a central House of Cards plotline.