Daring FireballGoogle Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/18/google-fires-28
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/18/google-fires-28
tubedogg@daringfireball Is there anything a company could do that you wouldn't find a way to claim was OK? The "goofy college kids" were staging a peaceful sit-in to protest something they felt their company shouldn't be doing. You should be holding them up as an example of democracy instead of celebrating their firing by a corporate behemoth who used their global head of security to make a Mafia muscle-like veiled threat against others who might dare to disagree with the company line.
@daringfireball You've been on a real tear lately of being on the wrong side of things.
Jeffy 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺It's a perfect example of why "at will employment" was created in the first place: to give *employers* a top-level excuse to rid themselves of problems without ever having to address the underlying concern that led to the dismissals. Google never mentions the particulars of the former employees' protest, did you notice? And they won't, because AT WILL EMPLOYMENT.
Greg Maletic@tubedogg @daringfireball I’m not certain there’s such a thing as a “peaceful sit-in” in a private space that’s not yours.
@Gregmaletic @daringfireball I’m not sure you understand the point of a sit-in. If you own the space, you’re not making much of an impact by sitting there. There is a massive difference between peacefully sitting there in protest and being violent, taking hostages, etc.
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John Gruber@tubedogg Would you support them if they’d been wearing red MAGA hats and protesting Trump’s hush-money election-interference trial?
@gruber I support a right to *peaceful* protest/civil disobedience for all people. Based on Jan 6, I don't believe that the MAGA population *can* peacefully protest. But if they can, then yes, I support their right to do it, while still personally vehemently disagreeing with that group's goals.
Civil disobedience is one of the reasons Black people have (on paper at least; reality is different, but you have to start somewhere) legal protections for equality that didn't exist a few decades ago.