"Diversity of political thought" is not important to a technology company. I love how the right tries to paint themselves as victims using this statement.
Of course it is. If Google had it they wouldn’t be having so much trouble with regulators. Instead there are no internal checks and balances when Google’s particular brand of panopti-utopianism bumps up against the real world. A few more libertarians on staff and maybe they wouldn’t be caught up in so much privacy troubles. A few genuine socialists and maybe they wouldn’t be hounded by the tax authorities. And so on.
By the way, you might not have noticed but the measures described in this article are intended to achieve just that, as it mostly silences the loud left within Google when they try to push back.