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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFascist Marsha Blackburn asks Google if employee who criticized her still has a job
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/28/blackburn-questions-google-employee-433312?__twitter_impression=true"Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to ask about the employment status of a Google engineer whose criticism of the Tennessee Republican has become fodder for right-wing media outlets over the past two years.
Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked CEO Sundar Pichai whether Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher, still has a job at Google.
He has had very unkind things to say about me and I was just wondering if you all had still kept him working there, Blackburn said during the hearing, where she and other GOP lawmakers accused tech companies of squelching free speech.
Pichai said he did not know Lemoines employment status.
Breitbart News reported in 2018 that Lemoine had criticized Blackburns legislative record in excerpts of internal company messages and said Google should not acquiesce to the theatrical demands of a legislator.
Im not big on negotiation with terrorists, Lemoine said, according to Breitbart.
Blackburn didn't explicitly say whether she thought Google should fire Lemoine. Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Breitbart News and other right-wing media outlets have pointed to leaked company communications as evidence of anti-conservative bias in Silicon Valley, a notion that Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump have amplified in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Pichai, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter Jack Dorsey all rejected the bias accusations during Wednesday's hearing."
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Fascist Marsha Blackburn asks Google if employee who criticized her still has a job (Original Post)
Tanuki
Oct 2020
OP
Not only vile but stupid and nasty. Fucking image consultant POS. Beauty school dropout
CurtEastPoint
Oct 2020
#2
spanone
(135,630 posts)1. She's as vile as they come. I can't wait to vote her out
CurtEastPoint
(18,548 posts)2. Not only vile but stupid and nasty. Fucking image consultant POS. Beauty school dropout
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)4. Doyou think TN will?
Fking disgrace!
spanone
(135,630 posts)5. All I can do is my part. Tennessee has gone to hell...I hope it comes back.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)6. Me too!
On both counts.
I'm really hoping Bradshaw is elected!
Takket
(21,421 posts)3. "let the free market decide!"
what a bunch of bullshit
lastlib
(22,978 posts)7. She needs to proceed with self-fornication. With a rusty pitchfork.
PCIntern
(25,342 posts)8. Hey...she was pretty hot.
Listen, Im not the one who used a photo for my ad showing off my bedroom eyes.
Nazi bitch, however.
ooky
(8,885 posts)9. Pichai should tell her he gave Lemoine a raise.