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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by zadokshi on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:07AM (#40060652)
Freedom on full display. Employees free to break their employment contract. Employer free to fire them.

Let me guess, you want power to control what people and companies can or can not do? I don’t trust you enough to put you in control of that.

Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by cad31 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:16AM (#40060705)
Freedom to profit from war in privacy.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by tsimionescu on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:20AM (#40060733)
You would be right if they were fired, but they were arrested by the state. Not so free to protest.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by fleshdaddy on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:34AM (#40060840)
Well there are limits. You can’t for example protest in my living room or by breaking into the Capitol building. Trespassing can be a form of protest but it’s still illegal.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by tsimionescu on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:55AM (#40060947)
If they had broken into the offices after violently clashing with police, or if they were ransacking the place, I would be 100% in favor of arresting them - just like the Jan 6 protesters who attacked the Capitol.

Instead, as far as I've seen even from the Daily Wire, these people just walked into the offices of their company's boss (at worst breaking a lock?) and were sitting there without disturbing his papers or breaking his computers or anything violent.

Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by nh23423fefe on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:29PM (#40068444)
What point are you making? Calling yourself a protester means you can do whatever you want with someone else's property?
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by underdeserver on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:33AM (#40061176)
They weren't arrested for protesting. They were arrested for trespassing.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by CydeWeys on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:28AM (#40077238)
They have since been fired too.
Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by KingOfCoders on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:29AM (#40060797)
In the former (socialist) East German GDR it was illegal to change jobs. You would need state approval to change jobs. The state could mandate your job.

If you didn't work at all or didn't work the job you were assigned, you were sent to prison.

If you didn't work, the state could take away your children and offer them for adoption.

People don't know what un-freedom is, so they don't know what freedom is.