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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by michaelt on Friday November 08, 2019 @02:25PM (#21485784)
Gitlab is an all-remote, very open startup, where the company's employees can publicly discuss not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia with an abundantly clear paper trail in the public issue tracker.

Do you believe her actions are inconsistent with those values - or are you saying as the values are problematic, she should not have upheld them?

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Re:Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns by bsder on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:58PM (#21486672)
> Do you believe her actions are inconsistent with those values - or are you saying as the values are problematic, she should not have upheld them?

Her actions appear to be inconsistent with being a good lawyer.

Part (most?) of being a good lawyer is knowing when to shut up and when to tell your client to shut up.

In addition, there is some level of attorney/client privilege to consider. Quite often, two companies will have 4 sets of lawyers in the room for particularly sensitive things. Counsel for the companies and then counsel for the counsel. This ensures that what is discussed stays under attorney/client privilege.

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