Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/23/google_politics_chat/
Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it's adding oversight where it's needed – to mute overly opinionated employees.
The ad biz, having weathered employee walkouts over payouts to execs accused of sexual harassment, protests over a censor-friendly search engine for China and US military contracts, and other employee-driven clashes, has issued Community Guidelines directing workers to avoid contentious discussions in the workplace.
Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards
Aug 23, 2019, 10:22pm UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/23/google_politics_chat/
> Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it's adding oversight where it's needed – to mute overly opinionated employees.
> The ad biz, having weathered employee walkouts over payouts to execs accused of sexual harassment, protests over a censor-friendly search engine for China and US military contracts, and other employee-driven clashes, has issued Community Guidelines directing workers to avoid contentious discussions in the workplace.