The #fakenews NYT had a link to the entire memo in its reporting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/t...T.nav=top-news
Here's the original memo:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...ho-Chamber.pdf
I read through it last night. Dude did put a lot of though into it, but it does read like an above-average undergraduate research paper with lots of sweeping generalizations, over-simplification, and a lack of engagement with relevant social-studies/psychological/etc. research. To be fair, though, it was an internal memo - probably not a finished product.
On the other hand, I'm not sure if he should have been fired. People like Assange are framing this as free speech / censorship, which it is not, and google was justified in firing him out of fear of a "hostile work-environment" allegation (as the NYT speculated).
I'm just not sure it's in google's interest to fire the guy instead of saying, "while we disagree with some of the ideas in this memo, we are working with this person to understand his point-of-view and to foster an environment of collaborative mutual respect in our workplace blah blah blah".
Firing the guy out-of-hand sends the message that people who disagree need to keep quiet.
Originally Posted by Solon
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