“The racist legacy of police across the United States goes all the way back to its roots, when police forces emerged to protect the wealth gotten from slavery and genocide,” the letter reads. “We have a long way to go to address the full legacy of racism but to begin with — we should not be in the business of profiting from racist policing. We should not be in the business of criminalizing Black existence while we chant that Black Lives Matter.
“We’re committed to work that makes a meaningful difference to combat systemic racism, and our employees have made over 500 product suggestions in recent weeks, which we are reviewing,” Google spokesperson Cynthia Horiguchi said in a statement. “On this one, we were the first major company to decide, years ago, to not make facial recognition commercially available and we have very clear AI Principles that prohibit its use or sale for surveillance.
“The past weeks have shown us that addressing racism is not merely an issue of words, but of actions taken to dismantle the actual structures that perpetuate it,” the letter reads. “While we as individuals hold difficult but necessary conversations with our family, friends and peers, we are also incredibly disappointed by our company’s response.”
Google employees have waged a long internal battle against the company’s business with law enforcement and government agencies with mixed results. In 2018, employees demanded the company cancel — and some quit in protest of — its contract providing artificial intelligence to the Department of Defense. Eventually the company announced that it would not re-up its relationship with the DoD.
Good. I always say, why do I need another search engine, if there is Google?
Use DuckDuckGo
America is just sick and about destroying itself. Renowned black people disagree with this incomprehensible BLM behavior, unfortunately nobody listens to them. So, what’s really behind all this?
Hahahahah. So clearly every cops is racist right? Like every cop? Every every cop?
Re: Many Google workers are demanding the company end its police contracts. 'We should not be in the business of profiting from racist policing. We should not be in the business of criminalizing Black existence while we chant that Black Lives Matter.”
Seriously.....
Define 'many.'
But it's ok to sell tech to the biggest police state of the all, China. These employees rather help China than the US
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Criminals are red and yellow, black and white. It sounds like you want to be the law when you commit a crime. That's bullshit.
I wonder how many will actually quit when their company doesn't cave to their demands. My guess is: ZERO, zilch, nada.
Lolx for once I thought they(google workers) were geniuses but I was wrong.
breakupgoogle
Google, the company that tracks its users keystrokes and sells that information? They’re lecturing people about what’s righteous? Haha, GTFOH
But they’re ok with helping Chinese army. Millennial ignorance.
Everyone should cancel their subscriptions. Then, let's see what their response is then?
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Lemmings. Fire them all