creation the move comes after thousands of employees raise objections about the appointment of kay coles james who also happens to be the president of the conservative heritage foundation joining me now to discuss is conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve hey ben how are you so let's begin here what was the board's supposed to do in the week it existed for google when it came to issues. well they were supposed to set course on a responsible development of a within the company the board at eight members who were to meet just four times a year quarterly and they were going to discuss issues like facial recognition and fairness in machine learning and and making. a fairer and more transparent and also discuss whether to work on military applications for a so basically to give every google project and the proper security and scrutiny really i guess in going over them before they before they approve them along the lines of what you discussed is going on in europe yes so at this point you know for the week that it lasted employees seem to be fine with the idea of the board in general unti

creation the move comes after thousands of employees raise objections about the appointment of kay coles james who also happens to be the president of the conservative heritage foundation joining me now to discuss is conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve. they've been how are you so let's begin here what was the board supposed to do in the week it existed for google when it came to issues well they were supposed to set course on a responsible development of a within the company the board at eight members who were to meet just four times a year quarterly and they were going to discuss issues like facial recognition and fairness in machine learning and and making. a fairer and more transparent and also discuss whether to work on military applications for a so basically to give every google project and the proper security and scrutiny really i guess in going over them before they before they approve them along the lines of what you discussed is going on in europe yes so at this point you know for the week that it lasted employees seem to be fine with the idea of this board in general

creation the move comes after thousands of employees raise objections about the appointment of kay coles james who also happens to be the president of the conservative heritage foundation joining me now to discuss is conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve they've been how are you so let's begin here what was the board supposed to do in the week it existed for google when it came to issues well they were supposed to set course on not responsible development of it within the company the board at eight members who were to meet just four times a year quarterly and they were going to discuss issues like facial recognition and fairness in machine learning and and making. a fairer.

the idea of the board in general until there was an announcement made about the appointment of kay coles james so why was that particular name something that created this huge uprising other than the conservative connection. well to me it's the conservative connection you know the bias against conservatives that we see over and over and over again more than twenty three hundred employees of google signed a petition against her appointment to the panel keiko's james as you said she's president of the very conservative group the heritage foundation a very fine group i might add in my opinion the petition called her vocally anti trans an anti l g q also anti immigrant and for good measure a skeptic of climate change so there you go everything they want to label most conservatives with and shortly thereafter a board member a professor at carnegie mellon last wednesday he quit and another member a professor from oxford said he disagreed with her appointment but he agreed to stay on and a day later no more board the plug was pulled so again this is so strange to me because look if you disagree with

itself googlers against transphobia published a post monday of this week demanding the removal of kay coles james from the council james is the president of the heritage foundation, which has openly opposed lgbtq rights and on twitter james has criticized proposed federal legislation such as the equality act. google is doing way how we've already got that story. >>where would we like to go next. we're going tease still ahead cities across california, they are suing the golden state over home deliveries tear why some mayors say governor nuisance administration is overstepping local boundaries. and there's a few more san francisco, the giants heather game opener today and despite the cloudy skies fans would let it dampen their spirits. >>and for is now streaming live local news 24 hours a day if you haven't tried kron on yet, here's what you might be missing. >>today was bad some are worse. stoner into the oakland hills. >>a team from hosting the tampa bay rays in the first-ever real game at oracle park. >>and our car force has it made you was very caught up with some fans who are pretty psyched fo

no hundreds of google employees are trying to shut down the viewpoint of councilmember kay coles jamesican woman to become president of the conservative heritage foundation. the group of employees calls itself "google earth against trans phobia and says that by pointing james "google is making clear that its version of ethicr over the well-being of people, other lgbtq people and immigrants." she has opposed federal legislation like the equality act because she says it's not equality and would "open every female bathroom and sports team to biological males." in a fox news op-ed last week, james also brought about socialism, quoting again. "politicians once ran from the term, now more embrace it and polls show younger people are favoring it while conservatives have the right answers. we need to do a better job of communicating them. if we fail to break through the constant deluge of socialist pap, claptrap, our future and theirs is in peril." when google stood behind the appointment of james, saying she was added to ensure diversity of thought, google employees accused the company of wea