This seems like a really bad move to me, unless of course, there were other issues with the said employee's work. Instead of removing all proponents of a differ

This seems like a really bad move to me, unless of course, there were other issues with the said employee's work. Instead of removing all proponents of a different (and most probably incorrect but let's leave that aside) ideology, they could have started workshops, lecture series, heck even one on one conversations to make him and others see why their views are damaging to the Google culture and society in general, and maybe they would see why they're wrong. That is what the Google I know would do. Alas, it seems the Google I know is no more.