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Elon Musk and Kraken’s Jesse Powell Shouldn’t Claim to Be Free Speech Advocates

• rvz 4y ago
  > You are welcome to get a job somewhere else. “Work somewhere that doesn’t disgust you,” an executive at Kraken told employees in the company Slack. Exactly. You are free to leave and not join the company in the first place. The role is not guaranteed either, and they are just as free to terminate your employment and replace you if that is what it takes for them to protect the company from 'bad hires'. Or like how others have tried to do, you can sue them. But rather than do something, why not resort to writing opinion pieces complaining about how some CEOs are narcissistic, some of them being crackpots, others using reality distortion spells to brainwash their employees and some CEOs that generally don't care. You are not forced to go to any of these companies as they already declared that they won't change. Delicate sunflowers that will immediately drop on a rainy day don't have a chance in the wider tech industry in general or anything got to do with getting close to handling millions, or even billions of dollars. Might as well stay at university.
  • sn0w_crash 4y ago
    This is why the NYT has lost credibility. Opinion pieces like this disguised as “news” are their bread and butter.
    • fortran77 4y ago
      On the very top of this piece, it says in a large-type heading > OPINION > GUEST ESSAY
• christmm 4y ago
• jleyank 4y ago
  “Free speech” doesn’t mean you can say what you want. It means they can say what they want.