Yeah but that's not what downvoting is for. It cannot be surprising or offensive that not everyone in the tech _world_ has tied their identity up with the compa

Yeah but that's not what downvoting is for. It cannot be surprising or offensive that not everyone in the tech _world_ has tied their identity up with the company they work for that they don't want to broadcast it - or that (as in this case) many organisations consider it better from a business/safety perspective to forbid it. Of course, it is a sad state of affairs that it could attract violence. Someone is always going to disagree with what you do regardless of what it is, but it's a shame that that itself leads to violence.