Silicon Valley's era of open debate fades as companies clamp down on employee dissent

[brunocasarini]

About time. My entire working career was in a corporate environment that suppressed Traditional views. Say the wrong thing and you got sent to the HR office. Do it twice and you got fired. I could tell you stories.

Do tell!

 

[Axeia]

Techspot, stay out of politics. You will just lose readers.

But the engagement of them is so much greater. Look at the amount of comments on an article, the political ones get so much more action.

 

[airbornex]

It’s wild how the tech industry went from "Don’t be evil" and public walkouts to NDAs and pink slips. Feels like the culture flipped when the risk of speaking out started outweighing the moral high ground — especially with a shaky job market and AI arms races heating up.

 

[SRB]

But the engagement of them is so much greater. Look at the amount of comments on an article, the political ones get so much more action.

Is it because they are political? I think there is some news value, especially in this climate of record profits combined with mass layoffs, about the shift from the old "let the employees do as they please" to these companies shifting to "this is a company workplace for company business".

This could have been written to show how silicon valley's great experiment of "work when you feel like it" is coming to an end, and what are the implications. Instead, this author, as she usually does, doesn't miss a single opportunity to tie this to politics and cry about the shift in political fortunes.

Seems most, if not all, of her articles are about the next green breakthrough or the latest injustice to the worker. The sad part is there are actually harms done to employees (see recent article on stolen artwork).

But I'm afraid that crusading for a cause is much more satisfying to an author vs. reporting news.

 

[Plutoisaplanet]

Ahh yes, Silicon Valley used to be a haven of free speech for employees. Complete BS. How about forcing out a completely merit based, newly appointed CEO solely because of his PRIVATE religious and/or political beliefs. Former co-founder, CTO, CEO of Mozilla and inventor of JavaScript Brendan Eich is the perfect example of the premise of this article being dead wrong. And let’s not pretend that was a fluke

Books have been written about Steve Jobs ruthlessly firing “diversity of opinion” on even work related stuff. People were making comedy about this kind of crap 15 years ago. Are those flukes too?

 

[mbk34]

And what happened before March 2? Have you already forgotten October 7?

Maybe you should look a little further back to see what led to the Oct 7th kidnappings. Israel has built 270 illegal settlements on Palestinian land. Those who objected were shot. They then moved half a million Israelis onto this land. Israel then rerouted the natural water supply that fed Palestine to use it on their crops. Israel has ignored UN demands to get out of Palestine and the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister.

Since the attack, Israel has killed 55000 civilians in Gaza. Roughly 70% women and children. 90% of all housing has been destroyed and nearly all schools, hospitals and churches. Israel is also stopping food aid getting to the survivors and shot over 400 aid workers. Last month they discovered a mass grave containing aid workers and the ambulances they were driving at the time.

 

[mailpup]

Back on topic please. Thank you.

 

[lonetac]

*edit* - I think I was off topic.