Why do the opinions of these Google employees matter on an issue like this? Employees don't get to be involved in unrelated areas/decisions/functions of the com

Why do the opinions of these Google employees matter on an issue like this? Employees don't get to be involved in unrelated areas/decisions/functions of the company that are not directly related to their specific role. The company is also not obligated to explain themselves to those employees. Does everyone need to be involved in every last facet of the company in some strange 90,000 person design-by-committee process? Obviously not, and so Google needs to stop tolerating the constant stream of leaks and internal activism. If these employees don't want to work there, let them quit or fire them. If they are disrupting the workplace by constantly fomenting outrage on the Internet, fire them. If they are hurting the company's brand and working against the interests of the company (or shareholders) by engaging in self-serving political activism, fire them. If they disrespect and alienate most of their customer base by only advocating for their own worldview, fire them. This should be uncontroversial - after all, many others will line up for those jobs and Google will be just fine. These leakers/activists/organizers need to realize how this looks. They are soliciting external signatures on this petition, and frankly those external signatures don't matter - it appears any random person can sign it (for example I see rank-and-file employees at various companies and individual university students). They should further realize that the opinions of Google employees alone do not matter. Those of their global customer base, however, do matter. And even so, only 2000 of 98000 employees have signed this letter anyways. I hope Google leadership shows some spine and recognizes that they do not have to fear a small number of employees or manufactured outrage on Twitter. In all likelihood, at least half of Google's customer base does not agree with the US far-left progressive view on trans issues. Even here in America, only 8% are progressives after all (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...). And like this article notes, the two-thirds of America that do not belong to either political extreme are simply exhausted. And I, as a customer of Google, am also exhausted by the constant stream of political controversy caused by a small subset of their employees. So I ask again, why should this company care at all what their skewed internal demographic has to say? If Google is actually truly exposed to some kind of risk due to attrition, and actually fears that more than a few lone activists will quit, then that is a serious failure of leadership. It is the job of the CEO to reduce exposure to that risk - whether by hiring a more ideologically-diverse staff or by managing with a heavier hand to put and end to this constant activism.