Freedom of speech has nothing to do with what you can say at a home or company, it regards the government. This shows us Google's philosoph
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God knows it would be terrible for Children to be clamoring "freedom of speech" when they are disciplined for calling their mother an idiot
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Children are irresponsible for their actions and thus do not enjoy all the rights enjoyed by adults.
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I can kick you out of my house for anything i please.
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No-one is trying to say private companies have the obligation to support free speech, just talking about the ethics generally.
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I agree on the ethics of the situation, but so many screaming free speech and illegal conflate the issues, and clarification is necessary.
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I will post it! I will!
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They took away his income over his ideas. He wasn't expressing hate speech or even (in my reading) mildly discriminatory speech.
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No. They took away his income over his job performance while their paid employee. Yes, he has a case that he was not at all out of line.
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So he wrote this after his termination - or while it was imminent? Or do they assert this was incidental/coincidental? Was he on probation?
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He contributed it in a post in a group he was part of which was specifically set up to share thoughts on diversity at google.
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What I don't see is how that equates to job performance since the subject itself is largely subjective. (Ken's 1st response)
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If he did it at his workplace whilst being paid by his employers...
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But the other people who contributed to the group have not been fired. The group was legitimate. People encouraged to contribute.
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That's why I said, this case is nuanced. Google (according to what I read) encouraged a culture of speaking out and criticizing management.
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They fired him for use of googles internal mailing list, not for free speechhttp://uk.businessinsider.com/james-damore-google-anti-diversity-manifesto-free-speech-2017-8?r=US&IR=T …
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I am talking about principle of promoting the free expression of ideas not abt the 1st Amendment which is 1 law in 1 country & just abt govpic.twitter.com/K2skd0mHYu
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I absolutely agree. I wish he hasn't been sacked, and I wish the response from lib-left was more open to his thoughts.
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But wanted to point out reason for his sacking was probably not his ideas. Or maybe it was, we won't really know.
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Well, they said it was. He posted in a group to discuss thoughts on diversity & he has been sacked for it whilst the others have not.
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I don't think we know the official reason. But I know that if I criticised my employer on my own FB wall I'd be sacked.
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I'd be critical of that too but in this case he posted in a group he was part of & which was specifically set up for talking abt diversity.
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