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Backdooring his employer's code would be directly related to his work, and illegal actions on his own time would make him unemployable if caught and convicted,
by transitionality 12y ago
Backdooring his employer's code would be directly related to his work, and illegal actions on his own time would make him unemployable if caught and convicted, because he'd go to prison. False equivalances, all.
- Blahah 12y agoOK, if you need to picky, something more comparable. Imagine he said: "black people are inferior to white people and don't deserve to be happy".
- transitionality 12y agoIt's certainly illegal to fire someone over that opinion, yes.
- Blahah 12y agoIt depends entirely on his contract - I'd expect most CEOs to have a clause about their conduct causing harm to the organisation. Even if not, it's legal to convince someone to leave, which is what usually happens in public embarrassment cases.
- transitionality 12y agoIt's illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their political stance. Nothing you can say will ever change that.
- alexqgb 12y agoIf that were true, no congressperson could ever staff an office. Or a campaign.
- transitionality 12y agoIf a Republican wanted to work for a Democrat, and if he were denied employment for that reason alone, that would be illegal, yes.
- alexqgb 12y agoI don't know where you're getting this idea from, but you really should check your sources. There is a limited prohibition against screening for political affiliations enforced by the Federal government when filling certain civil service positions, but that's about it. For a good summary of what types of discrimination can and cannot trigger legal liability, see here: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
- alexqgb 12y agoNo it's not. Indeed, you run a legal risk in NOT firing such a person given that keeping them around (especially in a senior position) creates a demonstrably hostile work environment.
- transitionality 12y agoUnless you can demonstrate that they acted in a hostile manner towards anyone, you can't fire someone over opinions or speech, no.
- AlexMax 12y agoFYI: You are responding to a troll.
- lucasnemeth 12y agoAnother comparable example: He donated 10,000 to the Nazi party.
- transitionality 12y agoThat would be a hell of an accomplishment, seeing as how the Nazi Party hasn't existed for more than half a century.
- alexqgb 12y agoWrong again. http://www.americannaziparty.com http://www.americannaziparty.com
- transitionality 12y agoThat is not the Nazi Party though, is it?
- alexqgb 12y agoFor the purposes of the parent's argument, it's just fine. And you know it.
- transitionality 12y agoIt would still be illegal to fire someone over their political affiliation, even one that invokes Godwin's Law and automagically loses the parent the argument anyway.
- Rotten194 12y agoThat's a terrible semantic argument. Of course it's not the actual Nazi Party, but if the Mozilla CEO donated $1000 to the ANP people would be pretty angry.