Your opinion has a huge amount to do with your job and your employer.
Appeal to authority may be a classical logical fallacy, but it's a highly effective one and is used by many people to infer the merit of an opinion rightly or wrongly so. Yeah, I know it's weird, that people would associate a comment one person posts with the voice of a trillion dollar company. Just happens sometimes.
Moreover I have nothing to gain by trying to "make this into" anything.
Believe it or not, I actually hoped it could be of some help to you as another data point - as far as all the things you take into consideration when choosing how to exercise your bill of rights free speech, which has nothing to do with your corporate free-speech. The latter of which unfortunately has cost many people dearly.
With respect to Microsoft, I'm certainly not making any comment about them as a company one way or another. That wasn't the point because, this concept applies to most large similar tech companies.
Things do change rapidly at such companies. Fwiw, I have done your job, your bosses job, been the janitor, and a few other things there. Things may be different now, but i'm not making the most possible uninformed guesses just to mess with you.
I sincerely hope the truth is known and that there are no negative repercussions for you personally.
Appeal to authority may be a classical logical fallacy, but it's a highly effective one and is used by many people to infer the merit of an opinion rightly or wrongly so. Yeah, I know it's weird, that people would associate a comment one person posts with the voice of a trillion dollar company. Just happens sometimes.
Moreover I have nothing to gain by trying to "make this into" anything.
Believe it or not, I actually hoped it could be of some help to you as another data point - as far as all the things you take into consideration when choosing how to exercise your bill of rights free speech, which has nothing to do with your corporate free-speech. The latter of which unfortunately has cost many people dearly.
With respect to Microsoft, I'm certainly not making any comment about them as a company one way or another. That wasn't the point because, this concept applies to most large similar tech companies.
Things do change rapidly at such companies. Fwiw, I have done your job, your bosses job, been the janitor, and a few other things there. Things may be different now, but i'm not making the most possible uninformed guesses just to mess with you.
I sincerely hope the truth is known and that there are no negative repercussions for you personally.