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by lurker69 3240 days ago
This market force might actually change in future.

In this case it seems that James planned all this to happen and is gonna sue Google:

> "$1 million in bonuses" was changed to "$100 million as a compensation" after Damore was "fired" by a Mr Kunda Píča whom I have never heard of; Damore plans to sue Google; he had previously complained to NLRB and wants to argue that his dismissal was a revenge which would be illegal. See a Damore's defiant answer to Reuters.

And about PR, while vocal left leaning activists might cheer decision to fire him, conservative and centrists media used this as great point to smear Google as leftist propaganda. This is great talking point for proving accusations that google manipulates search results to prefer certain political agenda. Recently Jordan Peterson caused quite a stir when his youtube and gmail accounts were revoked, YouTube decided it will start isolating videos with controversial views even if they dont brake ToS...

This moves will be used by anti PC camp a lot to steer users to alternatives to googles products.

Facebook and Twitter already pushed a lot of potential users away by similar behavior, alternative platforms are getting more and more relevant. Its hard to say if this vocal PC SJW activists are just vocal minority or actually majority talking with their wallets. Based on results of recent US elections and financial problems of some feminists and left leaning publications, and on majority of comments on uncensored pages; I would say that PC ship is probably sinking fast.

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Jordan Peterson got his YouTube account revoked? What possible justification could have they given for that?
No reason was given. Peterson tweeted about it. And said that even access to his gmail account was revoked for braking policy. He said no details were given.

Then he tweeted that they reviewed revocation it and still didnt restore account.

He then tweeted few influencers like Rubin, Rogan and Harris.

And then he tweeted that his accounts were restored, again with no explanation.

Right media and Youtube anti-SJWs blame this on one Youtube policy to isolate contradicting videos and authors, but I think this was probably mistake by some bot. Maybe Peterson account was mass flagged by some fringe group.

You tube isnt doing themselves a favor with keeping all the details, since this allow those who accuse them of being biased, to use this as an example of censoring anti-SJW personalities.