Google TELLS EPLOYEES NOT TO PROTEST AT PRIDE

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San Francisco’s Pride Parade is at the end of june but if Google Employees Want to Protest They Employer They Barred From Doing So they are Marching Office with the Company. Reasons they Might Want to Protest? YouTube, Owned by Google, Spent Much of June Embroiled in a Scandal Surrounding the Harassment of a Queer Creator. AFTER YEARS OF BEING CALLED THINGS LIKE “LISPY Queer” and “Anchor Baby” by Right-Wing Commentator Steven Crowder, Vox Host Carlos Maza Posted a Compilation Video of the Abuse. YouTube’s initial respecting was that even while it did not endors endorrous words, they did not violate the Service and Could Remain on the platform. Later, The Company Doubled Back and Demoneized Crowder’s Channel.

Which, for Clear Reasons, Didn’t Leave a Great Taste in the Mouths of Many Members of the LGBTQ+ Community. Including some working for youtube and Google. (Google’s CEO Recently Sent an Open Letter to LGBTQ+ Employees Promising to Address Concerns About Harassment.) An Internal Memo, First Reported by The Vergewas Sent to Members of the “Gaygler” Listserv Reminding Employees of Conduct Rules for Pride. “Employees are free to make what stakes they want, apart from sponsored float/contingent,” The Memo Said. “But they are not permitted to the Leverage Our platform to express a message contradictory to one google is Expressing.” (This Means Google Employees are free to protest while Marching with Other Groups, but as the event is only days away, there’s little to find alternatives.)

Neither for workshut for violating this policy, One Googler Tweeted “Customs What Consequents there is Wouuld Be if we did protest we were Told… ‘Employees Will Need to Contact Individual Code of Conduct Team (E -mail) for any furtheres on this.’

“We prohibit retaliation in the workplace, and investigate allgations. Employees and teams are regularly and commonly gioven new assignments, or reorganized, to keep pace with evolving business. New York.

2019 Marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, an event that cathalyzed the gay-retail Movement Throughout the Country. In Honor of the Event, The LGBT Community Center of New York City Created a tribute Called “Stonewall Forever,” a “Living Monument” to A Half-Century of Pride. Google parthed with the center and kicked in $ 1.5 million to back, which you can reads in a legethy press release from Google that ends with the line “Pride is forever. ” Apparently i been Such a long time that Google has entirery forgotten about the Kind of pride got us here in the first place: The Kind of Disobedient Bravery and Unwillingness to Accept Edict that Events It Safe – or at least safer – For the nosereds of thusands of People who will march in san francisco this weekend, many of saying in that Same protest from 50 years ago. That’s pride and that is forever, Google.