{"id":81029,"date":"2017-08-13T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81029"},"modified":"2017-08-13T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:30:53","slug":"google-has-no-clue-how-serious-this-infowar-will-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81029","title":{"rendered":"Google has no clue how serious this infowar will become"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ads posted outside Google offices slam CEO for firing controversial memo’s author<\/h1>\n

Rachel Sandler, USA TODAY<\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Anti-Google ads have appeared near\u00a0Google’s offices in Venice, Calif.<\/p>\n

The ads, which were first spotted by some on Twitter, call out Google’s response to a\u00a0memo that went viral last week after it lambasted\u00a0the company’s efforts to increase the number of women, African-Americans and Hispanics in technical roles.<\/p>\n

In one of the ads, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is pictured side by side late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Next to Jobs is a picture of the Apple logo with the company’s famous slogan “Think Different.” Next to Pichai is the Google logo but instead the text reads “Not So Much.”<\/p>\n

This rogue billboard was pasted onto a bus stop board near Google’s offices in Venice Beach, on the corner of Rose Avenue and Main Street. The paste job is obviously unprofessional, with bubbles in the paste visibly apparent.<\/p>\n

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\nSide by side posters at a Venice Beach, California park bench protest a recent firing at Google.\u00a0<\/span>(Photo: Jefferson Graham)<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

Down the street, at the corner of Brooks and tony Abbott Kinney Avenue are more protest sightings. Two bus benches get the treatment, with one, a repeat of the Jobs\/Pichai Photoshop job, and another displaying the word “Goolag” in the same type and color as Google’s logo, a reference to\u00a0Soviet\u00a0camps in which as many 30 million prisoners are estimated to have been starved or worked to death between 1918 and 1956. \u00a0The posters are side by side each other.<\/p>\n

It is not clear who is behind the ads, but the content echoes defenses of the memo’s author, James Damore, who was swiftly fired from Google after the memo was made public. His firing has since become a lightening rod for the alt-right,\u00a0a relatively new\u00a0offshoot of conservatism<\/a>\u00a0that includes pundits and media personalities\u00a0who espouse white supremacism, conspiracy theories like Pizzagate,\u00a0and are savvy about using social networks to reach followers.<\/p>\n

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Someone is in Venice is not happy about Google’s firing of that memo guy. These are all over Santa Monica and Venice.\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/gHU6ihfMWl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alex Rubalcava (@AlexRubalcava)\u00a0August 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Since his firing, that movement \u2014 which gained visibility during the 2016 presidential campaign and Donald Trump’s election \u2014 has\u00a0christened Damore as a hero of the movement on social media.<\/p>\n

Damore’s alt-right defenders are seeking to mobilize outside of social media\u00a0by organizing a nation-wide protest.\u00a0The protest, called #MarchOnGoogle by its organizers, will be held on\u00a0on nine Google campuses on August 19, they say.<\/p>\n

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\nA rogue poster pasted on city property in Venice Beach, California protesting a recent firing at Google.\u00a0<\/span>(Photo: Jefferson Graham)<\/span><\/h5>\n

According to the protest’s\u00a0website<\/a>, organizers are also planning a “meme contest” along with the physical protest.<\/p>\n

For his part, Damore has embraced his newfound online celebrity. He has not responded to interview requests from USA TODAY, but gave his first interviews to two alt-right YouTube personalities.<\/p>\n

Damore’s\u00a0newly created Twitter account, which has the handle @fired4truth, includes a profile picture that shows him\u00a0wearing a t-shirt with the same “Goolag” logo displayed on the ads. Additionally, he has retweeted several prominent alt-right figures and an article from Breitbart\u00a0that\u00a0have vehemently come to his defense.<\/p>\n

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In the memo, which was posted on an internal Google mailing list, Damore opines that women are not equally represented in tech in part because of “biological differences” between men and women.<\/p>\n

In an interview after his firing with\u00a0Bloomberg TV<\/em>, Damore doubled down on the memo’s contents and said that he isn’t sexist.<\/p>\n

Google said Damore was fired because violated the company’s policies by\u00a0“advancing harmful gender stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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