Originally Posted by
googe
It's not so much the company as much as the individuals, usually. This kind of thing is not done at an official level. It tends to be done by ideologues and activists. So for example, a typical interview loop is 5 different engineers. If any one of them happen to be the woke activist type, they'll look you up and any social media that they find will bias them. The zealots would do a search if it was easy enough or if they hated the right enough. So when they vote you a "No Hire" and make a point of only highlighting the bad parts of the interview, or misrepresent how the interview went, nothing will actually say "had a Parler account" for example. They might say something like extremist social media activity though.
In this case I could see some companies doing it even officially. AWS even cut them off. Now, all that any other company has to do is say yeah, that's a known extremist site, that's why AWS and Apple and Google killed them. They can either do that out of naivete/ignorance, or intentional dishonesty with plausible deniability.
When people complain about big tech censorship/bias, I think there is a perception that this is done from the top. While sometimes it is, a majority of it comes from the bottom. If employees can't make the decisions themselves, they organize internal protests and put pressure on upper management. And occasionally an activist rises enough in the management chain that this makes them easy to convince.
The joe rogan twitter / Tim pool episode actually did a good job highlighting this phenomenon, jack doresey highlighted that he wanted 2 twitters, one sensors and one uncensored, but it was highly unlikely employees or the board would go for it. The head of the legal department on with jack was a huge Hillary supporter, I suspect you would be hard pressed to find a republican at any equivalent level in Twitter or most other Silicon Valley companies.
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Originally Posted by
Xtrema
There seems to be a push to delete maga folks from the online world permanently, parallel economies are not a good thing, but I don’t see anyone with any power making a case to stop it from happening. If people are pushed to the edges of society and not allowed to participate, it generally doesn’t end well. See incels.
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