SpaceX fires workers who criticized Elon Musk in open letter

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9 points·null0ranje··9 comments

People who seem to love free speech seem to never love it when it comes from people who work for them.

Going forward how Musk handle the Twitter? I see more worker discontent for Musk owned companies in the future.

At the end of the day This is a company. A place of business. Not a college campus.

People get paid to work there. The company has decided that an “activist uprising” by 5 employees can be distracting to the organization.

That’s all. I don’t see any broader free speech implications here.

Sure, it was all about 5 people being distracting in a company with 12,000 employees, and nothing to do with what they were saying about who. /s

I presume that all of the SpaceX employees in question are at-will employees... and criticizing the owner of your company in an open letter is not a protected activity. So, like it or not, adios.

Granted, if his best and brightest are all making the same complaint then he better take it to heart because firing them will destroy SpaceX for good.

> Granted, if his best and brightest are all making the same complaint then he better take it to heart because firing them will destroy SpaceX for good.

So, when this shit happened to Tesla assembly workers it's okay, but this kind of wanton firing only matters if it impacts critical engineering employees?

Tesla assembly workers lived and worked in California, no? Rules there are different than Texas, I presume.

I'm not sure anyone's necessarily saying "this shouldn't happen", but more highlighting the irony of it happening given Elon's constant nattering on about free speech absolutism.

Is it bad I find this funny?

I guess the free speech absolutist isn't so absolute after all.

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