The NBA on the other hand. I love Steve Kerr. He tweets daily about Trump and how he abuses human rights, but ask him about HK and he gets quite really quick. If a man that rich is afraid to say something - thats a tremendous amount of power. I just don't see this type influence on the tech industry.
Furthermore, Kerr is an employee and whatever statement he makes on HK would be inconsequential but also extremely harmful to his employer and co-workers. If actual change is wanted then we should divert our attention to the government where the real change happen.
Yes, it is called hypocrisy.
The individual in question has a powerful speech platform due to his role. Such power should be used responsibly.
Moreover, why aren’t statements against the USA government harmful to businesses? Because we have free speech. We should protect it, and denounce the actors in the world trying to censor us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
Google is a big organization. There is clearly tons of employees there protecting free speech, but there are also other people who are okay just taking the cash. It’s hard to treat Google as an entity only on one side of the fence.