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9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI (hachyderm.io)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

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[–] flumph 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There's no counterpoint in that article. The article says that things should change. At no point did I say I agree with the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The word you used is "required" I'm pointing out that's false. The only person who can require you to do something is you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

You don't seem to understand what is required of whom. Corporations are required to act in the best interests of their shareholders (within the bounds of the law) or the shareholders can sue the company.

People are not legally required to do anything but they will be fired if they don't. If someone says something that makes a company look bad to their customers, they kinda need to be fired. Otherwise keeping them on may be detrimental to the interests of the investors.

Basically, you can say what you want but anything but positive attention may get you fired.