Anti-Google protest planned in Mountain View postponed

The organizer of a wave of protests Saturday at Google offices nationwide said the events would no longer take place because of threats his group received.

The March on Google, organized by Jack Posobiec, an online personality with a large far-right following, said on its website that the event will be postponed for a few weeks due to “credible threats from the Alt Left terrorist groups.”

Another issue may have been the failure of the event to gain traction with its intended audience.

Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson said the department is “working to confirm the validity” of the threats that the March on Google says it received.

Some residents of Mountain View had feared that the march could result in a tense confrontation, with people driving from as far away as the Central Valley to express opposition to Google’s pro-diversity policies.

Posobiec attempted to distance the planned protest from the “alt-right,” writing on the event page Monday that “messages that are designed to incite anger, hate, or violence” would not be tolerated.

The March on Google and similar protests targeting the company come in the wake of the firing of Google software engineer James Damore, who wrote an internal memo that suggested that men are more biologically prone to pursue careers in coding than women.