[liberationtech] I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left.

[Tim Phillips]

C'mon, that's a quote from the article. YC is just sharing with you
relevant news about tech, freedom, and the erosion of it.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 8:57 AM bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:

> doesnt matter what all been said here, just because you worked at google
> = you deserve every bit of what happened, wish for you all the worst
> things in you life.
>
> also Medium is a shitty media.
>
> congrats you suck.
>
> Yosem Companys:
> > My solution was to advocate for the adoption of a company-wide, formal
> > Human Rights Program that would publicly commit Google to adhere to human
> > rights principles found in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, provide a
> > mechanism for product and engineering teams to seek internal review of
> > product design elements, and formalize the use of Human Rights Impact
> > Assessments for all major product launches and market entries.
> >
> > But each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives
> came
> > up with an excuse to say no. At first, they said human rights issues were
> > better handled within the product teams, rather than starting a separate
> > program. But the product teams weren’t trained to address human rights as
> > part of their work. When I went back to senior executives to again argue
> > for a program, they then claimed to be worried about increasing the
> > company’s legal liability. We provided the opinion of outside experts who
> > re-confirmed that these fears were unfounded. At this point, a colleague
> > was suddenly re-assigned to lead the policy team discussions for
> Dragonfly.
> > As someone who had consistently advocated for a human rights-based
> > approach, I was being sidelined from the on-going conversations on
> whether
> > to launch Dragonfly. I then realized that the company had never intended
> to
> > incorporate human rights principles into its business and product
> > decisions. Just when Google needed to double down on a commitment to
> human
> > rights, it decided to instead chase bigger profits and an even higher
> stock
> > price.
> >
> > It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied
> and
> > screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks. At an
> > all-hands meeting, my boss said, “Now you Asians come to the microphone
> > too. I know you don’t like to ask questions.” At a different all-hands
> > meeting, the entire policy team was separated into various rooms and told
> > to participate in a “diversity exercise” that placed me in a group
> labeled
> > “homos” while participants shouted out stereotypes such as “effeminate”
> and
> > “promiscuous.” Colleagues of color were forced to join groups called
> > “Asians” and “Brown people” in other rooms nearby.
> >
> > In each of these cases, I brought these issues to HR and senior
> executives
> > and was assured the problems would be handled. Yet in each case, there
> was
> > no follow up to address the concerns — until the day I was accidentally
> > copied on an email from a senior HR director. In the email, the HR
> director
> > told a colleague that I seemed to raise concerns like these a lot, and
> > instructed her to “do some digging” on me instead.
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065
> >
> >
>
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