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9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI (hachyderm.io)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What I don't understand is him getting sacked. While he did name a few people and cut ties, I don't see the people named couldn't stand up with him after being named. It seems as if they really support the war crimes in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

In his blog post he explicitly said two things:

He can’t concentrate on work while this is going on
He actively refuses to work with a certain set of investors (conceivably the ones backning CircleCI)

That doesn’t leave much room for others to work with him