'There was a witch-hunt': Silicon Valley conservatives decry Google groupthink

After a Google employee was fired for penning a controversial 'anti-diversity' manifesto, conservatives say it proves Silicon Valley is a liberal echo chamber

• Google employee fired over diversity row considers legal action

"Given the current political climate in Silicon Valley, I think I would prefer to stay in hiding."

That's how one 29-year-old software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area feels about talking publicly about his political views in the wake of the firing of James Damore, the Google employee who authored a controversial 10-page manifesto about the company's "ideological echo chamber".