[stevenwoo]

The context is he was responding to employee #4 who constantly quoted Breitbart on company forums (which employees brought up until Basecamp went in and erased old messages.), and the company #1 and #2 backed up the Breitbart supporter, and denied employee request to change the racist code names for outside companies. This is similar to GitHub where they fired the Jewish employee for telling people to be aware of Nazi sympathizers on January 6 because using the word Nazi offended some “apolitical” employee who objected to using the word Nazi to describe Nazis.

[sol_invictus]

So the problem is not that Basecamp doesn't allow political opinions, it's just that they don't allow the right political opinions. Why am I not surprised... This whole American thought police experiment is going to end in a massive dumpster fire in the not-too-distant future.