By "recent blatant attempts to shape the direction of our culture" is it fair to assume you mean firing the man-child author of that manifesto? I was thinking that had much more to do with controlling their own culture than forcing it on anyone else. They didn't make that a public thing, it blew up on them.
Please try to avoid inflammatory language, there's no reason to make this a flame war. We can discuss why we are right or wrong without attacking each other or other people.
Yes, I was speaking of the manifesto. The fact that Google fired him instead of discussing why he was wrong for holding opinions that much of the Google workforce hold themselves shows that there is probably merit to his claim of an ideological echo-chamber. Google holds incredible global power to shape and control populations. Given that, it worries me to hear of an echo-chamber forming in a corporation so powerful.
