Comment by drdeadringer
7 years ago
> They would open themselves up to huge amounts of foreign manipulation and political sabotage.
I'd like to know how you envision this happening. Like, China calls Google's CDO and says "We'd love to see more Chinese hires, we might consider sending you a welcome-back invitation"?
>I'd like to know how you envision this happening
Botnets of fake social media accounts for starters. You think if they are currently manipulating political elections they won't ever try and use similar tactics to tank a company?
China: "Google give us user data!"
Google: "No way!"
China: "PLA Unit 61398, hurt the Google! Make accusations! Lots of accusations! Many many many accusations!"
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China: "State media, run articles about how the evil uncivilized Google makes a hostile environment for female/gay/green cardigan wearing employees!"
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China: "Movie studios, make this romantic comedy but be sure to vilify a company identical to Google!"
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China: "People's Worker, scour the internet for any controversial quote from any corporate member of Google, great, yes, that! PLA Unit 61398, have an account 'discover' this quote and use the botnet to get it trending!"
... but some of these examples happen already. How is a CDO reporting to the CEO going to amplify any already magnified negative PR and force action?
>How is a CDO
By existing. If you make a 'chief diversity officer' then you make an ideal candidate to compromise access to their accounts. Any policy discussion, any reports, any internal discussion of incidents become excellent ammunition for a campaign.