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Comment by JaimeThompson | Hacker News Reader

Do we know for sure that the behavior that SpaceX says those employees did actually happened? All we have is a few quotes from SpaceX, not actual evidence but I could be wrong.

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You're suggesting that the official, public statement from the COO regarding the email activity was false? No chance. There are laws regarding email retention. The company stands to lose a lot while gaining little by releasing a false statement like that.

When things like the incident below happen it does make me wonder if the COO fully knows everything that is going on at SpaceX.

"In late March, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC, "I don't think the US has given us any money to give terminals to the Ukraine." She also said that most of the funding came from private sources, and acknowledged some help from France and possibly Poland, according to CNBC."

https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/spacex-starlink-terminals...

it really has less to do what they did than how it can be listed in their firing. if they sent an email to all spacex employees non work related during company hours they can mark that as 5 minutes wasted across whole company and grounds for firing. now it falls into the realm of cases that have been heard for union voting during company hours to the opposite end of spectrum of traveling to rallies and completely skipping out on work. so battle of who has the best lawyers/ if they choose easier to settle or make an example of them

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