Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?
He also had a (now deleted) comment where he called the guy "just the worst":
https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5/status/1633155915892527104
I know someone who can literally only move her eyes and her neck a little, and she still manages to use software to type.
It looks like we're in the "there's always a tweet" era of Elmo's breakdown. This is coming from the dude that got so addicted to Twitter he bought the entire company.
Yeah, it happened today.
The only thing I was saying is that we don't know if he was a productive employee of Twitter or not. Besides that, absolutely horrible how he was treated, productive employee or not. But that doesn't remove the fact that we don't know what happen behind the scenes.
Nobody deserves to be fired without communication, without HR being able to confirm if they work at the company, and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability.
Speculating about the person's work at Twitter is beside the point. Thousands of Twitter employees have been let go, but mocking someone for their physical disability on the internet is something else entirely.
The perspective warp that happens in these comment threads is baffling. If someone posted the same scenario (getting fired without communication, then their CEO mocked their disability on Twitter) as an "Ask HN" thread, everyone would have their pitchforks out. Replace unknown CEO with Elon Musk, and suddenly commenters are doing mental gymnastics to ignore the real bad behavior and try to justify something else using speculation.