@daringfireball newsflash dude: they knew they were gonna be fired. that’s the point. disruption for a cause is the point of protest. disagree with the cause (collective punishment == bad) all ya want, but no need to clutch your pearls
@daringfireball I've been following and admiring your work for over a decade, but lately, you've been changing in a way that's hard for me to recognize or be okay with. I noticed a shift around 2021/22.
I was thrilled to support you by paying for the Dithering when you first started, but a few months ago, I just couldn't renew it. It's really disappointing that it's come to this, but your recent post is the final straw for me. My stance against genocides outweighs everything else. Goodbye, John.
@pfine What do you think Google should have done in response to this? Would you support it if the protest had been in favor of Israel? What if they’d all been wearing MAGA hats, protesting Trump’s hush-money election-interference trial?
@daringfireball There was a quote in one of the stories about this: “workers have a right to object to how their work is being used”. Lots of nuance, but worth considering.
What drives me crazy about Googlers’ political entitlement is that they are ~always objecting to other people’s work. 1/2
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Holy shit, you really seem to be on a mission to outdo every bad take with an even worse one… all while demonstrating a shocking lack of self-awareness for overpaid blogger who hasn’t held a real job in over a decade.
@daringfireball Is there anything a company could do that you wouldn't find a way to claim was OK? The "goofy college kids" were staging a peaceful sit-in to protest something they felt their company shouldn't be doing. You should be holding them up as an example of democracy instead of celebrating their firing by a corporate behemoth who used their global head of security to make a Mafia muscle-like veiled threat against others who might dare to disagree with the company line.
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