The Blind app is an example of how the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.
"Naturally, Uber employees want to talk about it all. Many do on an anonymous chat app called Blind. Uber has more than 11,000 employees worldwide with about 5,000 in San Francisco, its headquarters. And over 2,000 Uber employees in total use Blind, says Blind's head of operations Alex Shin.
But it appears that Uber is trying to block employees from using the app.
"Out of over the 100 tech companies active on Blind, Uber has been the only company to make attempts at blocking employee access to Blind. The app doesn't launch on Uber WiFi," says Shin.
Shin says this information came from Uber employees telling him about their inability to access the app at work. Uber did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.
In any case, the defensive measure doesn't seem to have stopped Uber employees from chatting. "Our activity at Uber has gone up 3x since they blocked us on their WiFi," Shin says."
http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-blocks-anonymous-chat-app-developer-says-2017-2
"Employees across Silicon Valley are deeply divided about Google's move, according to a survey conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday by Blind, an anonymous corporate chat app. When Blind asked its users if they thought Google should have fired Damore, over 4,000 from different companies weighed in.
Perhaps most pertinently, 441 Google employees responded. Of them, more than half – 56% to be precise– said they didn't think it was right for the company to fire Damore.
The former engineer actually had significant support among all the corporations represented in the survey. But it did vary from company to company.
At Uber, 64% of employees who participated in the survey thought Google shouldn't have fired Damore. Employees at Apple and LinkedIn were nearly evenly split in the poll but leaned slightly toward approving Google's decision. Meanwhile, 65% of respondents from Lyft were good with the way it went down."
http://www.businessinsider.com/many-google-employees-dont-think-james-damore-should-have-been-fired-2017-8
"Naturally, Uber employees want to talk about it all. Many do on an anonymous chat app called Blind. Uber has more than 11,000 employees worldwide with about 5,000 in San Francisco, its headquarters. And over 2,000 Uber employees in total use Blind, says Blind's head of operations Alex Shin.
But it appears that Uber is trying to block employees from using the app.
"Out of over the 100 tech companies active on Blind, Uber has been the only company to make attempts at blocking employee access to Blind. The app doesn't launch on Uber WiFi," says Shin.
Shin says this information came from Uber employees telling him about their inability to access the app at work. Uber did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.
In any case, the defensive measure doesn't seem to have stopped Uber employees from chatting. "Our activity at Uber has gone up 3x since they blocked us on their WiFi," Shin says."
http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-blocks-anonymous-chat-app-developer-says-2017-2
"Employees across Silicon Valley are deeply divided about Google's move, according to a survey conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday by Blind, an anonymous corporate chat app. When Blind asked its users if they thought Google should have fired Damore, over 4,000 from different companies weighed in.
Perhaps most pertinently, 441 Google employees responded. Of them, more than half – 56% to be precise– said they didn't think it was right for the company to fire Damore.
The former engineer actually had significant support among all the corporations represented in the survey. But it did vary from company to company.
At Uber, 64% of employees who participated in the survey thought Google shouldn't have fired Damore. Employees at Apple and LinkedIn were nearly evenly split in the poll but leaned slightly toward approving Google's decision. Meanwhile, 65% of respondents from Lyft were good with the way it went down."
http://www.businessinsider.com/many-google-employees-dont-think-james-damore-should-have-been-fired-2017-8