[jbooth]

Kind of apples and oranges there, right? The tech guy's comments were way worse than Bloomberg's, and we're not so much talking about "tech vs non tech" here as we are talking about "bloomberg vs not bloomberg".

I'd expect any CXO to get fired after making that many ridiculously offensive comments.

EDIT: Not to say you're completely wrong, just not a very good example. I'd call that dude getting fired for those comments completely justified, not a case of techies getting pushed around.

[yummyfajitas]

I dunno, I generally consider making offensive comments to real live humans to be worse than being a Republican and mocking Mel Gibson. You do know the context of that one very offensive quote, right?

http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-most-offensive-mel-gibson-...

[jbooth]

I guess if I were trying to make your point, I'd point to Brendan Eich / Condi Rice rather than no-name CTO with an actually very offensive twitter history (multiple fire-worthy tweets for a high-profile job IMO) vs name-brand celebs. I figure a CMO or CFO would get fired for that twitter history just as fast.