Google whistleblower Mike Wacker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay
Quillette Podcast
Quillette
4.6 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette. |
| 0:08.0 | Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. |
| 0:15.3 | Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, |
| 0:18.8 | associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by |
| 0:24.2 | visiting Patreon.com forward slash quilette and becoming a monthly patron. By |
| 0:29.1 | becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jonathan Kay, Colette's Canadian editor. |
| 0:38.0 | As any web user knows, Google has long held a dominant position in online search, video, chat, and other digital services. |
| 0:47.0 | This dominance has, in turn, aroused fears that the California-based tech giant and its parent company, Alphabet Inc, would use their online power to block or demonetize conservative users. |
| 1:00.0 | And there have been worrying indications that this in fact has been happening, especially on YouTube, a Google subsidiary. |
| 1:07.0 | In 2017, moreover, attention was drawn to Google's internal corporate culture when engineer James |
| 1:13.8 | DeMoor was fired after circulating a memo about men and women that, though |
| 1:18.3 | politically incorrect, was shown to be largely accurate. Earlier this year, a Google engineer named Mike Wacker went public with his own concerns |
| 1:27.0 | about the company's internal culture. |
| 1:29.4 | In a May 21 blog post titled, Google's Outrage Mobs and Witch Hunts, he described an aggressively |
| 1:35.9 | progressive internal political culture which stigmatized mainstream conservative groups as hateful. By way of example he described a coworker who was |
| 1:45.6 | informed in writing that quote you appear to be promoting and defending Jordan |
| 1:50.8 | Peterson's comments about transgender pronouns, and this made others feel unsafe at work." |
| 1:58.0 | Mike Wacker felt especially vulnerable to complaints because he administered an email group within Google called |
| 2:04.4 | the Republicans at mailing list. At one point a disciplinary action was launched |
| 2:09.7 | against him because he made caustic comments about the women's march that colleagues found |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Quillette, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Quillette and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.