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by mandmandam 796 days ago
No one said the employees expected to keep their jobs. This is a strawman.

And it's not what I'm challenging with the above comment. OP claimed it's "not OK" to protest in the office, even when the protest is against mass murder of innocent people.

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> That it seemed a bit much in response to Google employees just sitting-in, in their workspace peacefully, saying, “Hey, drop Project Nimbus or come talk to us about it. Have some sort of conversation with us.” It was a complete overreaction on Google's part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this. And people are taking notice that it feels like a very fascist environment.

That was from the article.

The truly worrying part of Google's reaction was firing people who just stopped by to talk to the protestors.

The rest was fairly standard operating practice for corps.