No offense, but bullshit. He got fired because Google didn't want to be associated with him due to public opinion from the left demonizing him for things he didn't even say. They used the code of conduct violation purely as an excuse. I'm 100% certain HN Googlers could provide 100 examples of violations that did not result in someone getting fired.
I’m not claiming that the code of conduct accusation is or isn’t justified. My point is that he got fired from one normal job (i.e. not a role with a significant public-facing component, like an actor or TV personality or comedian or writer or YouTube creator) for saying things about his employer that for one reason or another the employer very much didn’t like. Do you genuinely think his case qualifies as “deplatforming?” I think that would be an extremely broad application of the term “deplatforming.”
> I can't name any deplatformed views that aren't hate speech. If you can, I'd like to hear about them to broaden my views.
This is the initial comment we are discussing. It’s a pretty specific choice of words, so it’s not unreasonable to continue the discussion based on a reasonable interpretation of those actual words.
That claim is the specific issue being discussed, so I don’t think it’s a distraction. If you’re interested in some other issue, then by all means openly discuss that.
If the challenge was just to name any event that has occurred that didn’t involve hate speech, then sure, we can list many such events.
No, that's ebg13 trying to narrow the scope of the discussion so they don't have to address the issue. The same thing that's happening in this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21143570
Your quote is a response to throwawaysea's comment, which is clearly much more general than that:
>Leaving aside culture wars waged by individuals, I see institutional tightening on free speech all over America. I see it in big tech companies, where only a progressive monoculture exists with no psychological safety for other viewpoints. I see it in censorship applied by defacto digital public squares like YouTube. I see it in the left's rampant use of deplatforming to silence opposing views. Increasingly, I also see it in universities (see this incident at the University of Washington today https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-was...).
Frankly, all those things that people are going "is it deplatforming?" pretty much are deplatforming, but I figured pointing out the distraction tactic was worth more than engaging in the argument over definitions.
