[_heimdall]

It was irrational. While I agree that the new policy could have been rolled out differently, and likely led to a few of the bullets in this blog post, employees and the public very much over reacted.

Company leadership deciding that political discussion/debate is too distracting to go in the remote team's official communication platform seems totally reasonable. They didn't say you can't talk about it with anyone at all, they just said don't do it in the chat rooms that are used by everyone at the company.

I'm not sure when the norm changed but it had to be very recent, I've never worked in a place where it was acceptable to debate politics in a company-wide platform.