Well... duh she was fired. If you put preconditions on your employment, your employer is always free to say fine, you can leave right now and we don't have to

Well... duh she was fired. If you put preconditions on your employment, your employer is always free to say fine, you can leave right now and we don't have to negotiate further. However, the whole outrage sort of presupposes that Google should be acting as an impartial scientific foundation, and not a money-grubbing for-profit company dedicated to protecting its own reputation and dearly wishing its own employees won't badmouth it specifically in public. In this current political climate, one must be very careful before saying your employer is both a massive polluter adding to global warming, and has an implicitly racist bias in their primary product. Gebru was not careful at all, then demanded to know who in Google could possible dare object to her unveiling such truths (as if those truths were obvious and indisputable). Surely, if she got that information she wouldn't do something irresponsible like naming and shaming them on Twitter as naive at best and racists at worst (like she did to LeGuin in the week before she was fired).