"It's not okay to say that your algorithm is a black box" and you can't explain it, he said.

What is the context of this statement?

They lied under oath about shadow banning, and the FBI issued takedown requests against US citizens making satirical comments about US elections, amongst other abuses. Citation provided: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter

There are certain industries, certain sectors, from which there is no protection, and that's why we try to limit the proliferation of these technologies.

Open the mobile networks to competition and open source. This is the first time I've disagreed with Snowden, he of all people would know governments want the status quo for the same reasons espionage companies do, it makes spying easier.

They are pumping a dump operation, it's plebs vs vulture capitalists, the scales of morality are on their side, regardless of whether they profit.

The leaker could come forward at any time, unless they've been the victim of a random homicide in DC that remains unsolved - Seth Rich. If this scandal is real the U.S. will never be the same, it could change politics as we know it.

According to Dan Eaton, an attorney and ethics professor at San Diego University, the engineer certainly has grounds for a case on two fronts. "First, federal labor law bars even non-union employers like Google from punishing an employee for communicating with fellow employees about improving working conditions," Eaton writes.

And second, because the memo was a statement of political views, Eaton says Google may have violated California law which "prohibits employers from threatening to fire employees to get them to adopt or refrain from adopting a particular political course of action."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/google-is-more-afraid-of-liberal-outrage-than-federal-law/article/2630905

The reaction to his memo completely vindicates everything he wrote, and I suspect few have read it. A Google employee tried to get him fired and failed, that's why the memo was leaked--that is hostility. His attempt at dialog was perfectly reasonable.