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		LocalH on July 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google employees are listening to Google Home conv... Not only you, but your kids. People have lost sponsorships and contracts because of things one of their parents said before the person in question was even born. Look at last year's incident where Eli Lilly pulled their NASCAR sponsorship of Conor Daly over something his father had said a decade before Conor existed. https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2018/08/24/eli-l...

gdy on July 11, 2019 [–]

That's nuts. Things like this should cost company its reputation.

LocalH on July 12, 2019 | [–]

Fortunately, Eli Lilly took a bigger hit over this than Daly did. It's still disgusting on the principle of it, though.

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