Folks, there's a lawsuit in California, San Mateo County Superior Court in alleges that

YouTube has set minority hiring quotas.

The suits filed by somebody named Arn Wilberg, a YouTube recruiter who also worked for

YouTube's parent company, Google.

Now, Wilberg claims that last spring, YouTube recruiters were instructed to only interview

female, black, or Hispanic applicants.

The suit also says the company told recruiters to purge the applications of anybody not fitting

those categories.

Wilberg, a white male, says he complained, and when he was ignored, he went to Google

management.

And shortly after that, they fired him.

Google says this is rubbish, that they don't use identity to hire, just merit.

Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, 69 percent of Google's employees are men.

White and Asian guys account for 91 percent of the Google staff and the tech industry has

had a big push to diversify.

The Journal also reports that people familiar with Google and YouTube hiring practices corroborate

some of the lawsuit's allegations, including the hiring freeze on white and Asian guys and

YouTube's use of racial quotas.

The Journal says the lawsuit threatens to ignite simmering controversy about Silicon

Valley's politics and whether it's predominantly liberal ideology is affecting how companies

operate.

And that's controversial.

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