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The advertising giant (and damn-near controller of the internet) Google officially launched it’s campaign “Legalise Love” in Poland and Singapore over the weekend. The campaign aims to tackle LGBT discrimination through grassroots organizations and small businesses  and will focus on countries with a homophobic culture and anti-gay laws.

Speaking at the Global LGBT Workplace Summit in London, Google executive Mark Palmer- Edgecumbe said “We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office. It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work.”

Of course this is also a business decision for Google, explains Palmer-Edgecumbe. “We operate in many countries and have a very globally mobile workforce. We have had a number of instances where we have been trying to hire people into countries where there are these issues and have been unable to put the best person into a job in that country.“

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