[akhmatova]

Not for "speaking his mind" but doing so via an interstaff memo, which is intrinsically not suited to such purposes (and which doesn't really have anything to do with free speech, as such).

Logically minded as you are, you understand this distinction, yes?

[raxxorraxor]

I agree with that but then Google employees are not encouraged to speak their mind if these technicalities result in disciplinary action. It was not a good idea to release it this way for that matter. Because it is not a channel to speak your mind. Google should make that clear in that case and it probably did not.

I would suggest the same logical agreement with differentiation here although that is a bit childish.