* Googles Handling of the #GoogleManifesto * Anyone and everyone that knows me knows I have been a very vocal advocate of Google products for a very long time. To call me a fanboi of their products has not been an unfair association. Whether it was Gmail, G Suite, or even Google Talk and Hangouts. I even put massive efforts into Googe+ for quite a long while until it became clear it was a DOA product. I have also been vocal about the things they do I disagree with. I resented them killing off Google Reader. I thought they way they dealt with Google Talk's transition to Hangouts was bad, and I still think Google Allo and Duo are among the most stupid implementations of any recent product. They don't even have feature parity with Hangouts, and they're trying to be 2 products taking on a single product competition (iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, even Facebook Messenger.) Recently things have been progressively getting worse there. Youtube has been the forefront of a massive ideological battle between the Progressive (Regressive left) and pretty much anyone not sharing their views. And it has been increasingly clear as time has gone by that Google is falling further and further on the Progressive side of the debate, rather than remaining agnostic or even completely outside the argument at all. I won't go into details, but when Google brings in professional victims, misandrist apologists, and actively shuts down voices that don't share those same opinions (look at the recent banning of Jordan Peterson) then it becomes clear there is no objectivity. However, this latest scuffle has genuinely been the icing on the cake. Everyone in the media and a lot of the tech commentators are running around screaming misogyny, hate, calling the document nothing but a massive assault on women and their place in the tech industry. Rather than actually discuss the points and refute his comments, they attack the author. Rather than discuss the sentiments expressed, they have literally shu...