I was responding to the parent's statement that "restrictions on confidential information only apply to government classification of information. Private classification isn’t a 'real' thing, it’s just a breach of a private contract." This is not the case - you can be convicted of a felony and go to jail for taking a private company's confidential information. Nowhere did I call layoffs a trade secret.

Sociologically it is interesting that we've hit the point where people will misinterpret a statement in the worst possible light just so they can argue against it on the internet.