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Speaker 1: Folks, there's a lawsuit in California, San Mateo County Superior Court.

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Speaker 1: It alleges that YouTube has set minority hiring quotas. The

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Speaker 1: suits filed by somebody named Arn Wilburg, a YouTube recruiter

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Speaker 1: who also worked for YouTube's parent company Google Now. Willburg

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Speaker 1: claims that last spring, YouTube recruiters were instructed to only

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Speaker 1: interview female, black, or Hispanic applicants. The suit also says

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Speaker 1: the company told recruiters to purge the applications of anybody

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Speaker 1: not fitting those categories. Wilburg, a white male, says he

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Speaker 1: complained and when he was ignored, he went to Google

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Speaker 1: management and shortly after that they fired him. Google says

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Speaker 1: this is rubbish, that they don't use identity to hire,

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Speaker 1: just merit now. According to the Wall Street Journal, six

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Speaker 1: of Google's employees are men, white and Asian. Guy's account

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Speaker 1: for nine of the Google staff, and the tech industry

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Speaker 1: has had a big push to diversify. The journal also

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Speaker 1: reports that people familiar with Google and YouTube hiring practices

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Speaker 1: corroborate some of the lawsuits allegations, including the hiring freeze

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Speaker 1: on white and Asian guys and YouTube's use of racial quotas.

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Speaker 1: The journal says the lawsuit threatens to ignite simmering controversy

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Speaker 1: about Silicon Valley's politics and whether it's predominantly liberal ideology

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Speaker 1: is affecting how companies operate. That's controversial. Is there anybody

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Speaker 1: anywhere who thinks liberal ideology has not infected and corrupted

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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley