content: The Google manifesto was great for shining a focus on it but the left has run a hard campaign to make him sound sexist.   The most important lesson of that story is that Google's own policy actually contributes to the problem they propose to address. They're willing to ignore all the research present in the report because it doesn't fit their internal narrative. That behavior is not consistent with the definition of "liberalism", but it is consistent with the definition of a different word:   Oppressive, dictatorial control.