Post #3441744
2026-06-28 05:28 UTC
If there's one thing I find sad about the modern internet, it's that we lost the ability to thing like this. Not all of us did, most of eastern Europe still can, but the US and UK especially are pretty bad in this regard. Separate the art from the artist and the work from the employee. Let work be work, private life be private life. If an employee of a company does something disagreeable with their own money and on their own time... well, it's their money. Huge respect for the company here for standing by their principles despite mob pressure. P.S. If you disagree here, do you think it's right and proper for companies to be cancelled over one of their employees being transgender or attending the pride parade? Because that's absolutely what's going to happen. Governments change. Attitudes change. Sometimes people we heavily disagree with gain social prominence or come into power. Making sure that privately expressing an opinion doesn't impact the company you work for is a check on the power of those people, who will happily use whatever power they have to crush our value!. https://corneill.es/@pi_r/116821863509317168
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@jcsteh@aus.social 2026-06-28 05:45
@miki@dragonscave.space I genuinely don't want to get involved in the specifics of this case, but the one clarifying point I would make is that there is a big difference between "an ordinary employee" and an employee with a high degree of influence over the company like a CEO, CTO, founder, etc. Ordinary employees can't generally influence the entire direction or goals of a company, but high level employees such as those mentioned in the latter category absolutely can. Their opinions can *become* the company's opinions.