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The Hollywood blacklist was run by private companies too. A country isn't just its government. A country is its norms, people, and culture. And if the culture creates an atmosphere of fear and self-censorship, that fear is no less real just because the government hasn't entered the picture.

> Let’s not pretend this was some no-name engineer at a tech company in SV who got canned because they expressed a normal political opinion and their coworkers “just didn’t like it”.

That happens all the time. You just usually don't hear about it on the news. A lot of people also keep their mouths shut, both inside and outside work, because they know that they're surrounded by people chomping at the bit to get someone fired for having the wrong opinions. After the Eich affair, lots of people adopted a policy of no public donations for anything whatsoever.

This is not normal and it's not healthy.

[pbourke]

Take the CEO’s tweet and imagine that instead of running a game studio, he instead ran:

- a women’s wellness lifestyle brand

- a healthy meal delivery service

- a government IT contractor

- a pickup truck accessories manufacturer

- a gun manufacturer

- a Christian publisher

Draw the line for me when you think he would not be cancelled. See the point, here? Context is everything. This is the opposite of McCarthyism.