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Eight years ago, workers loudly protested White House policies. This time around, the companies are trying to keep a lid on activism.<\/p>\n

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If any industry could have said its workplaces were politicized, it was tech.<\/p>\n

Early in Donald J. Trump\u2019s first term in the White House, America\u2019s tech giants loudly protested<\/a> his temporary ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.<\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s chief executive, posted that his great-grandparents were immigrants and that his in-laws were refugees. Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google who immigrated from the Soviet Union as a child, rushed to San Francisco International Airport to protest.<\/p>\n

Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, joined a crowd of employees rallying at the company\u2019s corporate headquarters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, thank you everyone for showing up today,\u201d he said<\/a> to cheers. \u201cIt\u2019s remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

But after this week\u2019s presidential election, the largely liberal work forces of tech\u2019s biggest companies were quiet. While the definitive nature of the election most likely played a role, the change also represented an effort by executives to dampen employee activism in recent years. They put in place policies restricting dialogue, monitored internal chat channels and vowed not to weigh in on the issues that fired up activist employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If the presidential election was going to be the biggest test of these new rules, the vigilance wasn\u2019t necessary. Reactions to the election on company message boards and forums was muted.<\/p>\n

On a companywide Google forum, someone posted an American flag with the note \u201cSending support to American colleagues,\u201d which was liked by more than 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n

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Eight years ago, workers loudly protested White House policies. This time around, the companies are trying to keep a lid on activism.If any industry could have said its workplaces were politicized, it was tech.Early in Donald J. Trump\u2019s first term in the White House, America\u2019s tech giants loudly protested his temporary ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s chief executive, posted that his great-grandparents were immigrants and that his in-laws were refugees. Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google who immigrated from the Soviet Union as a child, rushed to San Francisco International Airport to protest.Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, joined a crowd of employees rallying at the company\u2019s corporate headquarters.\u201cWow, thank you everyone for showing up today,\u201d he said to cheers. \u201cIt\u2019s remarkable.\u201dBut after this week\u2019s presidential election, the largely liberal work forces of tech\u2019s biggest companies were quiet. While the definitive nature of the election most likely played a role, the change also represented an effort by executives to dampen employee activism in recent years. They put in place policies restricting dialogue, monitored internal chat channels and vowed not to weigh in on the issues that fired up activist employees.If the presidential election was going to be the biggest test of these new rules, the vigilance wasn\u2019t necessary. Reactions to the election on company message boards and forums was muted.On a companywide Google forum, someone posted an American flag with the note \u201cSending support to American colleagues,\u201d which was liked by more than 1,000 employees.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16246,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}