Isn't censoring one of their employee to not enflame the situation would be what China/Russia would do with their citizen for the same reason? kind of an ironic situation.
Note: I have no love for the sort of thing Gitlab is doing here. It's petty.
This is a bit of a short-sighted argument, because in our times, pretty much everyone lives beyond their means, from paycheque to paycheque; if you're a tech worker in SF, you're probably not an exception to this rule, either. So, if you suddenly find yourself out of a job, and potentially unhireable due to your unwillingness to compromise on issues such as these, then how's that much different from being locked up, exiled or disappeared? And you have to remember, Epstein didn't kill himself, either.
One of these entities is a sovereign government and the other is a for profit company. I'm not sure I understand where the irony lies.
People who strongly disagree with rf/china government CAN not normally live in that countries
So normal Russian/Chinese do not have rf/china citizenship
And what does citizenship has to do with "living"?
It was never about nationality.