Tag: Google

A protest march scheduled this weekend over Google's firing of an employee who criticized the company's diversity policy has been cancelled. (Kim Jin-a/Newsis via AP)

March on Google cancelled over ‘alt-left terrorist threats’

Sean Langille · August 16, 2017 3:04 pm

Tech giants said they want the court "to ensure that the law realistically engages with Internet-based technologies and with people's expectations of privacy in their digital data." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Apple, Facebook, others urge Supreme Court to change Fourth Amendment privacy doctrines

Ryan Lovelace · August 15, 2017 6:47 pm

The website, the Daily Stormer, had been banned late Sunday by GoDaddy, one of the Internet's largest domain and web hosting companies. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Google, GoDaddy ban top neo-Nazi website

Kelly Cohen · August 14, 2017 8:17 pm

The Google Monoculture

Adam Keiper · August 12, 2017 1:30 pm

Google just didn't want the bad publicity of having someone with such ideas on their payroll. (iStock by Getty Images)

Fired Google engineer James Damore may have NLRB case

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2017 9:56 pm

James Damore, a Google engineer since 2013, wrote an internal document that went viral last weekend, accusing the company of quashing conservative political opinions and claiming biological differences explain a lack of women in tech and leadership positions.

Fired Google employee: ‘It saddens me to see the company silence open and honest discussion’

Josh Siegel · August 11, 2017 9:10 pm

Google employees should recognize that it's okay to work with a person you believe is wrong. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Political correctness attacks the entire learning process

Emily Jashinsky · August 11, 2017 5:21 pm

Google's new head of diversity has rejected an internal commentary from an employee who suggested women don't get ahead in tech jobs because of biological differences. The dueling memos come as Silicon Valley grapples with accusations of sexism and discrimination and companies like Google, Facebook and Uber say they are trying to change. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Google’s Orwellian firing

Michael Barone · August 11, 2017 3:35 pm

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, speaks before a security briefing at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is the promise of fire and fury effective in disarming North Korea’s nuclear threats?

Washington Examiner Staff · August 11, 2017 1:30 pm

Shut Up, They Explained

Adam Keiper · August 11, 2017 6:20 am

Conservatives criticized Google's decision as an overly sensitive crackdown on free speech and said the move reflected an insular Silicon Valley culture.

Google cancels diversity meeting for safety reasons

Josh Siegel · August 11, 2017 12:18 am

Tolerance, diversity, nondiscrimination, equality, and accommodation cannot all make absolute demands at the same time. (iStock)

At Google and in academia, liberal pieties clash

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2017 4:01 am