Google's former head of international relations retires, `` Google has become evil '', revealing reasons for retirement and Google's internal circumstances
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Former Google Head of International Relations Los Rajnes has announced that he left Google on January 2, 2020. Rajnes says that the reason for his retirement is that Google's long-held slogan 'Don't be evil' is no longer meaningful.
I Was Google's Head of International Relations. Here's Why I Left.
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Rajnes recalls joining Google in 2008, stating, `` We worked to make the world better and more equal under the simple but powerful 'do not be evil' norm. '' Is. As of 2008, the slogan 'Don't be evil' is valid, and Rajnes said he has worked hard to prevent Google products from being used for evil purposes.
For example, Google entered the Chinese market in 2006, allowing Google to censor some topics at the request of the Chinese government. Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Google's founders at the time, said that Google only stays in the Chinese market if the `` good result '' provided by Google outweighs the harm of Google. I was However, the Chinese government's request eventually escalated, the scope of censorship was expanded, and Google Maps requested that all labels be under government control.
And in 2009, when the Chinese government attempted to access the Gmail account of human rights activists, Google was forced to reconsider its 2006 decision. In an intense debate by executives, Google refused to cooperate with the Chinese government's censorship in 2010 to protect the slogan 'Don't be evil' and announced a substantial withdrawal from the Chinese market. 'The 2010 decision to stop the Chinese government from cooperating with search censorship of search results was the first instance of a company outside China facing the Chinese government,' said a public policy officer in the Asia-Pacific region at the time. Says Rajnes, who served.
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Rajnes pointed out that Google's decision to rebel against the Chinese government according to the motto 'Don't be evil' was also a decision that Google would throw away a lot. The rebellion against the Chinese government not only lost its future in the rapidly growing Chinese market, lost billions of dollars (hundreds of billions of yen), but also endangered the safety of Chinese employees. That.
At some point after making a decision not to cooperate with the Chinese government's censorship, Mr. Rajnes seems to have been involved in `` a mass evacuation plan to move all Google employees and their families based in China to a safe place '' . Despite the many difficulties involved in planning to evacuate large numbers of people, Rajnes says he was very proud of Google's decision to follow the slogan, 'Do not be evil.'
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However, not only the Chinese government was dissatisfied with Google's withdrawal from the Chinese market, but also angry voices from some product development departments looking to the huge Chinese market. In fact, less than a year after its decision to withdraw from the Chinese market in 2010, Google Maps and Android-related executives began to look for product sales in the Chinese market.
Changing Google's approach to withdrawing from the Chinese market would mean complicity in human rights abuses, and would also provoke Westerners and those who praised decisions based on the former 'don't be evil' slogan Rajnes said he vigorously opposed plans aimed at the Chinese market. In the end, the Chinese government was still dissatisfied with Google's decision, and Google Maps did not progress in China.
Rajnes has been a public policy officer for the Asia-Pacific region for about three years, and in 2012 became the head of international relations. During this time Google said that it had grown from a 'large successful enterprise' to a 'high-tech giant involved in the lives of billions of people around the world'.
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Rajnes, who has taken up the new position, said he continued to talk with product managers seeking to enter the Chinese market. Meanwhile, Mr. Rajnes in 2017 learned that Google is developing a search service with a censorship function for China under the code name `` Dragonfly '', concerned that Google may be involved in human rights violations That you had. Rajnes was not informed about Google's opening of an AI lab in Beijing, China, and realized that Google was trying to eliminate Rajnes' influence.
Rajnes therefore promised Google to comply with human rights under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and called for a company-wide human rights program that conducts internal product reviews. However, Rajnes's boss rejected Rajnes' request, stating that 'human rights issues are not to be handled by an independent program, but to be handled within the product team.' 'The product team has not been trained in addressing human rights issues,' Rajnes appealed, and when asked to reconsider, Rajnes eventually requested that 'there was a risk of increasing the company's liability.' Was not accepted.
Later, a relocation of the Dragonfly policy team was undertaken, and Rajnes' colleagues led the policy team, removing him from discussions about Dragonfly. From a series of events, Rajnes said, 'I realized that Google did not intend to incorporate human rights principles into its business and product decisions. I'm pursuing it. '
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As well as downplaying Google's human rights, Rajnes accused Google of its work culture. Rajnes' colleagues are bullying female employees and bosses are discriminating against people of color or LGBT, and it is a concern even if Rajnes appeals to the human resources department etc. Has not been followed up for.
In time, Mr. Rajnes was notified by Google that `` the position has disappeared as a result of reorganization, '' but after hiring a lawyer and talking, Google acknowledged that there was a misunderstanding and presented a small position. That. However, Mr Rajnes said, 'The choice was clear,' he said, and decided to retire from Google, where the slogan 'don't be evil' no longer makes sense.
One reason Google has changed is that Rajnes was hired by a new CEO or CFO in a post after his former management retirement, making it a top priority to exceed quarterly earnings expectations. He pointed out that this was the cause. Also, with thousands of new employees joining each year, it was difficult to maintain the corporate philosophy of the past.
Still, large tech giants cannot escape government surveillance in recent years, Rajnes noted. As Google has also discontinued the development of Dragonfly by a survey of the United States Congress, the role of the high-tech giant that affects the daily life of people around the world is no longer left only to management who is responsible for shareholders That. Mr. Rajnes said he will run for election as a Democratic candidate for Maine's senator, and it has been pointed out that 'this testimony has political intent.'
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