Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3051 Just

In the past few years, domestic social media has been in its golden age, with relatively loose censorship and smooth information dissemination.

If you don't explain the truth, you won't understand it.

Basically any topic can be discussed.

However, it doesn’t work anymore.

The secret circle really can’t survive anymore and needs to be completely closed down.

Platforms such as Weibo, Toutiao, and Pengyou.com have also been asked to make corrections many times because they contain a lot of inappropriate content.

Many people in the company find it difficult to accept this and are somewhat resentful.

Many people even think that this is a betrayal of their pursuits and ideals, and goes against the Internet's own development principle of breaking the information gap.

Zhou Buqi could only stand up and speak his true feelings to everyone so that they could overcome this psychological barrier.

That's a bit heavy.

Ziweixing is a listed company. Those attending the meeting were all company executives with a net worth of at least hundreds of millions of dollars. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the social value of these people has already reached the level of "self-realization."

The most important thing about self-realization is spiritual pursuit, having an ideal in your heart and wanting to do something meaningful and great.

It is not easy for Zhou Buqi to have a heart-to-heart talk with everyone.

So he started with Twitter.

"Some people may have heard that Google has recently hired a lot of content reviewers, who are mainly responsible for reviewing comments on Google and Twitter." Zhou Buqi has been paying attention to this matter. "Some time ago, I went to Google and talked about this with Larry Page."

Song Yansong is a rising star at Ziweixing and the fastest-promoting young person in the company's history. He is the youngest and has the most complaints. "I didn't find any restrictions on speech on Twitter!"

Zhou Buqi said: "There are some, but they are very clever. Otherwise, they would not spend so much money to recruit auditors. I talked to Larry Page and he said that this is a big trend and even if he is the CEO of Google, he can't do anything about it."

Song Yansong questioned: "Is it the White House's request? Does the White House have the right to interfere?"

"Of course the White House doesn't have such power, but we know that no company can be created by just one person. It must be the joint efforts of everyone." Zhou Buqi needed to explain this matter clearly. "Silicon Valley is in California, and California is the base of the Democratic Party in the United States. It can be said that modern liberalism that has spread around the world originated from the hippie movement in Silicon Valley and was promoted to the world through Hollywood. In a word, the entire California and the entire Silicon Valley are the left wing of the United States!"

Song Yansong remained silent.

Zhou Buqi went on to say, "For Larry Page, left and right are not important at all. The most important thing is to keep Google alive for a long time, to keep creating valuable and influential products, and to make greater contributions to promoting human development. This is the pursuit of a world-class entrepreneur. However, for most ordinary employees, they do not have such a pursuit. One of their most important demands is to work comfortably."

Guo Pengfei nodded. "Yes, Google is in Silicon Valley, and most of Google's employees are Democratic-leaning. There was a news report before that a Google engineer was fired for saying that women are not as good as men in computer development."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Yes, this is a typical example. I also asked Larry Page. Larry Page didn't want to fire him at all, but he was powerless. Because the other party's words had touched the red line of feminism that permeated Silicon Valley, and the people in Google were excited. If Larry Page didn't fire him, many outstanding scientists and executives in Google might feel huge disappointment and might resign, or at least there would be internal strife. This is a kind of kidnapping by the environment. Even if Google is Larry Page's company, he is powerless and can only cut his feet to fit the shoes."

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became serious.

In the United States, California is the stronghold of the left.

The elites in Silicon Valley are basically all Democrats. Several big directors in Hollywood who hold Republican views, such as Clint Eastwood, will inevitably miss Oscar nominations whenever he publicly expresses his position.

In California, there is a deep sense of exclusion between the "left" and the "right".

This trend has spread to Internet platforms.

For example, social media such as Twitter, Google+, and YouTube owned by Google.

These products are all operated by Google's product team. These people all hold leftist views, and over time, their views are becoming increasingly left-leaning. They have even begun to restrict Republican supporters, believing that their speech can be equated with terrorism and violence.

  What can I do?

Larry Page has no choice. This is the general trend. All his employees think the same way, from top scientists to the best executives. He can only be "kidnapped" by his employees to support them in reviewing some terrorist, violent, and populist comments on social media. At the least, the rights will be reduced, and at the worst, the account will be deleted or even banned. Over time, the entire Internet media in the United States will eventually turn left.

It will become more and more radical.

It depends on when things will turn around and correct themselves. The United States is actually better than Europe, at least it has not accepted a large number of refugees from the Middle East. Although the refugees from Mexico and South America are also causing chaos, they are many times better than the refugees from the Middle East.

No one here holds American citizenship.

They don't care what happens to America and Europe in the future.

But I had the same feeling.

  Even Google is not immune. Even people like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg are being kidnapped by the general trend. Who can escape it?

Zhou Buqi said: "What happens in the United States has nothing to do with us, but this incident also makes us see clearly that even Larry Page can hardly influence the general trend. He is just an ordinary person, a very wealthy ordinary person. So am I, and so are you. We are all ordinary people, ordinary people with some money, that's all."

Fu Hongliang sighed softly, "So we just accept our fate?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Isn't this fate? I think this is basic common sense in doing business."

Fu Hongliang said: "I feel uncomfortable!"

Zhou Buqi said, "Even if you feel uncomfortable, what can you do? Just like I just talked with Boss He about outsourcing for a long time. I believe everyone is very clear about outsourcing. When I first heard about it, I felt very angry. I thought it was a humiliation to outsourced employees and workplace discrimination. Later, I met a few outsourced employees and talked to them. I found that most of them don't care about this kind of differential treatment at all. Even if the treatment is not as good as that of regular employees, as long as they can make money, it's fine."

He Yang added: "For most outsourced workers, they can accept it. No matter how bad the outsourced job is, isn't it better than being a worker on the assembly line? There's nothing to look down on if you work to earn money. The most important thing for outsourced jobs is to make money. Whether there is discrimination or humiliation is not important."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "I'm so ashamed. I was criticized by Boss He just now. He said I was 'eating meat' and that I've been high and mighty for too long and it's hard for me to get in touch with the thoughts of the lower classes. When a person is hungry, what he cares about most is being able to eat enough. He may even sell his children when he's starving. What's more, dignity?"

Song Yansong was very young and asked: "Why? An honest person will not accept food given out of pity."

He Yang smiled and explained to him, "An honest person will not accept food given out of pity. This is of course true, but this is only half of the story. The complete sentence should be 'Most people will accept food given out of pity, but an honest person will not accept it'."

Song Yansong was speechless.

Zhou Buqi found it somewhat amusing. The way Song Yansong looked when being confronted by Boss He was exactly the same as how he looked just now.

Professor Han Leshui said in a mature and steady manner: "When faced with the choice between survival and dignity, you should choose survival. Only when you survive can you find a way to regain your dignity. If you choose dignity, you will end up losing both your dignity and your chance to survive. Sleeping on straw and tasting gall is better than the extermination of Fang Xiaoru's entire clan."

"I half agree with what Professor Han said!" Zhou Buqi laughed, then his face straightened, "However, speaking of those outsourced workers, including those assembly line workers in sweatshops, those small vendors and temporary workers in society, in order to make a little money, they have to endure humiliation and even abuse from all sides. Is it really worth it? Is dignity really that fragile? After talking with Lao He, I finally thought of a truth that we all know but is difficult to achieve."

After a pause, Zhou Buqi continued, "Each of us is good at examining and judging others, but we are not lacking in the ability to examine and judge ourselves. How big is the difference between us and those outsourced employees, takeaway boys, and small vendors who are chased by urban management officers all over the street? The only difference is that we have a little money! We are all ordinary people on this land!"

As soon as these words were spoken, many people present began to gasp.

I feel a chill down my spine.

I felt that my pride and self-esteem as a "superior" were suddenly shattered.

You know, even Larry Page backed off!

  Between the survival of the company and his own beliefs, he chose survival!

Under the general trend of the left tide in the United States, he was kidnapped by his employees. He wanted to fire the employees he didn't want to fire. He even hired a lot of content reviewers to limit the heretical speech on Google's social products...

Not to mention the ordinary people at the bottom of society.

  Even if you are a world-class entrepreneur, what can you do in front of the soil?

When it comes to survival, you can only retreat!

How can there be anyone superior to others?

We are all ordinary people, ordinary people whose personality, beliefs and ideals can be trampled on at will by the general trend and environment!