So, progressives in SV have moved from trying to get you fired if you say something they don't like on twitter, to pressuring you to quit your job if an accusation is made against somebody at your company.
Great. This couldn't possibly end poorly.
Great. This couldn't possibly end poorly.
This is about unlawful behavior which, from the outside, appears to pervade the entirety of Uber.
People always have the right to demand things. That's literally what Free Speech is.
Also not everyone lives in America, and many countries don't have any constitutional protection for Freedom of Speech - my country Australia being a good example of this.
Also, Free Speech is a human right acknowledged in sensible parts of the global like Australia. It's not just a law in a particular fiefdom.
When BP spewed oil all over the ocean, did you track down their employees and point out what horrible people they were? Or how about Yahoo, when they acknowledged their breach and admitted doing nothing about it for years, did you demand that everyone at Yahoo jump ship?
It's literally the primary bounding function restricting human activity. Everything requires energy. It heats our home. It moves our goods. It moves us. It drives our machinery. Every human activity requires energy.
A higher cost of energy disproportionally hurts the poor. Rising energy prices plunges millions into poverty.
That said, it sucks that we're currently heavily dependent on oil for energy, and we should move away from oil for many of our energy needs. Drilling for oil isn't the problem. Not having an economically competitive alternative is the problem. The only real solution for moving away from oil is helping make alternative energy solutions economically competitive with oil.
If you're anti-oil before we have economically competitive solutions, you're contributing to poverty and suffering for millions upon millions of people all over the planet. If that is not an immoral act, what is?