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'They'll Squash You Like a Bug': How Silicon Valley Keeps a Lid on Leakers (theguardian.com)
The public image of Silicon Valley's tech giants is all colourful bicycles, ping-pong tables, beanbags and free food, but behind the cartoonish facade is a ruthless code of secrecy. From a report: They rely on a combination of Kool-Aid, digital and physical surveillance, legal threats and restricted stock units to prevent and detect intellectual property theft and other criminal activity. However, those same tools are also used to catch employees and contractors who talk publicly, even if it's about their working conditions, misconduct or cultural challenges within the company. While Apple's culture of secrecy, which includes making employees sign project-specific NDAs and covering unlaunched products with black cloths, has been widely reported, companies such as Google and Facebook have long put the emphasis on internal transparency.
Zuckerberg hosts weekly meetings where he shares details of unreleased new products and strategies in front of thousands of employees. Even junior staff members and contractors can see what other teams are working on by looking at one of many of the groups on the company's internal version of Facebook. "When you first get to Facebook you are shocked at the level of transparency. You are trusted with a lot of stuff you don't need access to," said Evans, adding that during his induction he was warned not to look at ex-partners' Facebook accounts.
Zuckerberg hosts weekly meetings where he shares details of unreleased new products and strategies in front of thousands of employees. Even junior staff members and contractors can see what other teams are working on by looking at one of many of the groups on the company's internal version of Facebook. "When you first get to Facebook you are shocked at the level of transparency. You are trusted with a lot of stuff you don't need access to," said Evans, adding that during his induction he was warned not to look at ex-partners' Facebook accounts.
Your employer is paying you for a service. Don't help the competition and screw up their business. Don't blab about your employer on social media or anywhere else.
I learned pretty quickly: I like my job. I want my company to do well, and I want to do well as well. I have no social need to appear 'cool' on the Internet; I'm not that weak. Others do not need to know what products my company is launching. They don't.
But, robbery and rape are many times more frequent than murder. Somehow, you imaginary world just doesn't match up with the real one.
In the real one, the CDC studies of gun violence have consistently show the same thing: Private gun ownership prevents about 1.5 million crimes per year. Minimum 500,000, max 2.5 million. Most of those would-be victims are women and elderly.
But you'd rather see more women beaten, robbed, and raped than see someone allowed to protect themselves. That makes you an asshole.
Interesting.. Lets compare this with the current left wing narrative.
1. nationalist jingoism: no. They're 180 degrees out, usually saying how the incumbent culture/country does not deserve to exist or have an 'identity.'
2. human rights: this depends on what you mean by human rights. If you mean rights such as equal opportunity, free speech, self-defense, innocence until proven guilty, etc, then both the left and the right are failing here.
3. Enemies as unifying cause: Again, both have been guilty of this in the past, but right now, it's the left targeting the evil white and/or straight and/or male. Patriarchy 'theory' is a perfect example, as is the whole "non-whites can't be racist" routine. The whole 'power+privilege' thing is pretty obvious about it.
4. supremacy of the military: Sorry, but both extremes love their military (and militarized police!). There's plenty of historical evidence to back this up (was the iron curtain built by fascists or socialists? was it meant to keep people out or in?). How else are they going to keep citizens in line?
5. Rampant sexism? You mean like campus rape tribunals modeled after their Soviet counterparts? Insufferably anti-male HR department 'harassment' policy? Sexist hiring policies at google? The left is the current leader these days. They've become what they claim to fight.
6. Controlled mass media? The vast majority of the mainstream media is center-left at the very least. Who's getting banned from social media? It's not the SJWs. It's their critics. Who's calling everyone who doesn't agree with them 'fascists' every day on TV? Does Colbert make fun of hillary or trump?
7. here in the US, corporate power is protected, but people are still free to unionize and protest. Sometimes they win, sometimes not.
8. Disdain for intellectuals/arts: well that's also subjective. If you're talking about the so-called 'intellectuals' on ivy league campuses babbling about new gender pronouns and 'social justice', I have little sympathy.
9. Obsession with crime/punishment: Both sides win here. Plenty of history backs that up. Was it America or the Soviet Union who had the gulag system? (the answer today is arguably both).
10. Cronyism.. Cronyism happens in every government, tyrannical or not. As in crony capitalism goes? That's a left wing thing.
11. fraudulent elections: Again, plenty of examples on both sides. Tyrants don't like citizens choosing who rules.