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Google's YouTube hosts 11 Warner Bros. cartoons banned since 1968 for their racist content,
New York Times reports. Google flack Ricardo Reyes told the paper it is up to users to flag offensive content and up to copyright holders to notify Google when infringing content is uploaded. "The cartoons are despicable," the NAACP's Richard McIntire told the
Times. "We encourage the films' owners to maintain them as they are — that is, locked away in their vaults." But hiding the videos goes against Google's mission to organize all the world's information, including — it seems — records of our hateful past. Should the five racially offensive cartoons embedded below be so easy to share? Google never asked.
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great moments in hr
It's no secret Google has
painfully few black employees. Why lie about it? Laszlo Bock, Google's exceedingly Caucasian vice president of people operations,
assured members of Congress last June that Google, which was lobbying for more H1-B visas for immigrant workers, had plenty of black employees. "We have a very strong internal Black Googler Network," he said. "We actually view it as our obligation to reach out to underrepresented communities in our industry, particularly women in engineering, particularly African-Americans. "How many [of Google's employees] are African-American?" asked Representative Maxine Waters.
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bad ideas
The more popular this social networking thing gets, the more exclusive the communities become. For an evil example, there's the site
Newsaxon.org, a MySpace for racists which bills itself as "an online community for whites by whites." Though we suspect that the clientele of this network is a little less powerful than the
mega-moguls on Facebook — five of the twenty available job descriptions are "Looking for Work," "Laid Off", "Unemployed," "Billionare" [sic], and "Millionare" [sic]. What, no "Entrepreneur in Action"?
loren feldman
"I want to apologize to all the black tech bloggers. It could have been any ethnic group. It could have been gay guys, could have been Jews, could have been micks, skinnies, chinks, any of them...It was just your guys' bad luck that it went down that way...I'm a fucking idiot comedian and I did this." When PodTech promised to sign on more "
professional producers," did it mean a white guy putting on a blackface minstrel show? Because that's what PodTech talent Loren Feldman has been up to, as part of a freakish little "opera" this videoblogger has engineered over the past week. Here's the story as told in videos, from "TechNigga" to Loren screaming, "No balls on any of you, you're just fucking sheep."
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