An internal memo sent by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has detailed the company’s stance on the Charlottesville protest. The executive has condemned the ‘senseless violence’, and encouraged diversity.
The recent protest in Charlottesville has ignited strong response from the general public, the media, and even tech companies. Discord clamped down on white supremacist chatter on its client by shutting down the altright.com server and numerous accounts associated with the violent incident. Domain registrar GoDaddy withdrew its registration contract with neo-nazi website Daily Stormer, and Google did the same when approached by Daily Stormer.
Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has detailed his thoughts on the matter too.
In an internal email obtained by Quartz, Nadella said that the company finds the violent events at Charlottesville “horrific”. He noted that Microsoft stands for diversity and inclusion, and that there is no room for hate and bigotry that was promoted by “white nationalists” this past week. The full content of the executive’s memo can be read below:
This is not the first time that a tech firm has encouraged diversity as part of its growth culture. Last week, an engineer was fired from Google for circulating an anti-diversity memo that argued that women were less likely to be in top positions at larger companies mainly due to biological differences between the two genders.
Recently, Kevin Plank and Brian Krzanich, CEOs of Under Armour and Intel respectively, departed US President Trump’s manufacturing council following his rather late condemnation of the racist and white supremacist acts that shook Charlottesville.
Source: Quartz
