Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns

Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by frenchyatwork on Friday November 08, 2019 @11:22AM (#21483682)

There's certainly irony, or at least contradiction, here; but there's also a huge difference. In North America, companies regularly try to censor their employees; in China, the government regularly tries to censor its citizens. In both cases though, the government is the only one with the authority to enact violence on its citizens. So while the most Gitlab can do is fire Candice, or censor communications she makes on their platform; in China, such dissension could get you locked up, exiled, or disappeared.

Note: I have no love for the sort of thing Gitlab is doing here. It's petty.

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by cnst on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @11:13PM (#21581028)

> So while the most Gitlab can do is fire Candice, or censor communications she makes on their platform; in China, such dissension could get you locked up, exiled, or disappeared.

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.

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by tracker1 on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:04PM (#21488348)

I think editing the comment brought undue attention to it... in the end, a politely worded response as a comment would have probably worked out better.

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