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all of that ahead on bloomberg west. but to our lead, redditors are rebelling. more than 180,000 people have signed a petition calling for ceo ellen pao s resignation. according to change.org a vast majority of the reddit community believes that she has overstepped boundaries and will run reddit into the ground. the petition was posted four weeks ago the number of but the number of signatures skyrocketed over the weekend after pao fired talented director victoria taylor. moderators protested by shutting down hundreds of message boards. pao went to read it and said we screwed up. pao has been trying to cut down on harassment on the site, but redditors complain they are curtailing their freedom of speech. we have bob book. he led business developing at reddit competitors. peter signed this petition. why did you sign it? why was victoria taylor so valuable to read it? still no explanation as to why she was fired. peter: as to why victoria taylor was so viable to read i ....
we re going to get now. that s hip. the hipsters will like that dude. yeah. only one person even knows what the word hipster means and . that s me. i m the youngest one there by 35 years. we re out of time. thank you so much for joining me today. thanks, matt. thank you all. okay. i just got yelled at backstage because i ve been forgetting this whole time to mention we have a whole give away thing that we re doing that i just kn learned about. so if you like gopro everybody knows what a gopro iss. right? i got one hand. guys are active and engaged. you all know what a gopro is., it i we ve got the new black one, like with a head mount it s our wi like literally everything you a couldny with a gopro we ve got back stage. our winner will be selected in some way that i don t understand at all. but put a selfie of yourself on instagram at techcrunch disrupt and we ll choose on the third day.pane god chosel on the third day, te of seventh day, something like th ....
i think that moment a year ago was a wake-up call for all of us. a lot of soul searching occurred which is good and healthy.re i think part of the approach we ve taken in government youme where you could argue some of the same historic issues have been raised in terms of pipeline.ou bui you know i m very much in the if you build it they will come school, meaning if you send a g if y message from theou beginning of inclusion, if you insist in the hiring process that there be imum o maximum opportunity for ss inclusion, you find a lot more success at inclusion. our entire tech team happens to m happ be women, including some women of color. our administration thank you. our administration as a whole in terms of senior jobs and our administration across all agencies is 53% women in senior management roles for the entire set new york city government. so i think it is quite available if the mind-set of what is valued changes. i would argue this is not just about social re ....
they re not as good as the four-year public institution degree but that they re allowing people who are working without degrees to go back, often times in their 30s and get i think there s plenty of public in most places there s plenty of public options. i worked for free for the university of the people, that is essentially free. and just as good as the university of phoenix which is going to charge you a lot of money for exactly the same amount of educationsive convenience. i think the language that would work in america in american politics you hear the plate tall pundits is the fact that these are not this is not private enterprise. this is corporate welfare. they re getting the public really known cussing on the fact that they re just hoovering up public resources they re not really free they re not really businesses that are standing in competition in the real economy. they re just these just like defense contractors with no bid. they re just som ....
[inaudible conversations] on your screen now is a live picture of the langston hughes auditorium at the schomburg center. the home of the harlem book fair. the center for research and black culture part of the new york public library system is one of the leading institutions focusing on african-american life culture and experiences. we ll be back live with the harlem book fair in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] what we often think as the bribery of our national leaders by powerful special interests in washington may actually make more sense, understood as extortion by government officials both elected and unelected. please elaborate. guest: i think sometimes that often times in fact the conventional wisdom is wrong and the conventional wisdom is you have good intentioned government officials who are being influenced or there are attachments to influence them by corporations corporations and public unyouens and if with could just seal off these publ ....