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.
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.