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The article states that "We’ve grown used to Americans getting fired for social media posts that offend other Americans. Now it’s clear they can also be punishe
by PeterStuer 7y ago
The article states that "We’ve grown used to Americans getting fired for social media posts that offend other Americans. Now it’s clear they can also be punished for posts that offend China.".
Seems like companies were forced to make and have made that choice long before the China issue.
- jimmy2020 7y agoDo you think what's going on inside US politics is the same in China? I mean, have you ever heard about Americans getting fired because of supporting protest? Or is there anything similar to the situation in Hong Kong?
- syshum 7y ago>>I mean, have you ever heard about Americans getting fired because of supporting protest? Yes... If you support Libertarian or Conservative things
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoInstances? The only thing that comes to my mind is Brendon Eich at Mozilla. And even then, it wasn’t so much as being fired as being squeezed out of the CEO slot.
- testACCT321 7y agoThat is being fired at top levels of the corporate world. Lots of "resignations" "stepping down", etc. Not a bunch of firing.
- jimmy2020 7y agoSure, but it's still part of political process that is complicated and in some cases eliminating other views. But cannot compare it to the communist China and thank goodness there are no special camps in US to educate people until the regime thinks they are eligible to be free.
- elbrian 7y agoIt's been >2 hours and we're still waiting for your examples and/or sources.
- vogre 7y agohttps://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-by-google-a-republican-engineer-hits-back-theres-been-a-lot-of-bullying-11564651801 https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-by-google-a-republican-en...
- elbrian 7y agoKevin was fired for promoting alt-right views on internal message boards at Google, and not for supporting a protest. He made several of his co-workers uncomfortable enough to report him to their managers, who gave him several warnings before rightfully terminating him as an employee. Here's a more detailed write-up about Kevin Cernekee, what he stands for, and why no one wants to work with him (link below). https://medium.com/@mikewacker/the-other-side-of-kevin-cernekee-a88fd6b81606 https://medium.com/@mikewacker/the-other-side-of-kevin-cerne... edit: Thanks for the downvotes, too. I'm sorry you couldn't contribute more (read: anything) to this thread.
- vogre 7y agoHe was fired for his political position, which is, AFAIK, not a rare case in US companies. In the link you provided it's clear he was hated and fired for political discussions in mailing lists.
- elbrian 7y agoBy political discussions, you mean openly supporting (and fundraising at Google for) white pride organizations?
- vogre 7y agoWell yes. Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity. He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views. How is that different from penalising people for supporting violent protests?
- PeterStuer 7y agoDepends how you want to frame 'the same'. The way I interpreted the article it is postulating both as dismissal on the grounds of voicing an opinion that is deemed offensive to a constituency the organization wants to be in good standing with.