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Agreed. They also have now unfortunately signaled to that they will make hasty personnel decisions if enough politically-minded individuals complain at once. This encourages people to find new things to be offended by in order to advance their social cause.

Corporations aren't all-knowing entities. Sometimes it takes time for them to learn what their own employees are doing.

I would also like to know this, Google should have fired him the same day. I have heard that it took a while to get all their legal ducks in a row before firing him.

I don't think he leaked the memo himself, did he? He showed it to coworkers, I don't think he expected viral sharing.

He didn't leak the memo but it was shared publicly within Google.