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A Subnautica developer has reportedly been fired over controversial comments he previously posted to Twitter, with the game's sound designer Simon Chylinski tweeting that he has been ousted from his position at Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
Chylinski has come under fire recently after a number of recent comments he posted to Twitter were placed under the spotlight. The sound designer took to Twitter yesterday to post an update on his status with Unknown Worlds Entertainment, tweeting: "so. i just got fired.. :("
Isn't it illegal to fire someone for their political views in California? Unknown Worlds Entertainment may be in for one hell of an uncapped damages lawsuit.
Source: http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/366749-subnautica-dev-fired-controversial-twitter-comments
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @07:47PM (4 children)
So, it could thus be possible that everybody who posts on Twitter is a retarded moron.
But we already knew that! :-)
(Score: 3, Touché) by Grishnakh on Friday February 16 2018, @07:57PM (3 children)
Personally, I think usage of Twitter is a perfectly acceptable thing to use to discriminate against employment candidates.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 16 2018, @09:40PM (2 children)
And use of Facebook and YouTube.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday February 16 2018, @10:09PM (1 child)
YouTube might be OK. You can convey very useful information there in a format that has inherent advantages over text or photos, and YT gives individuals a way of making videos available on the internet for free and without having to deal with server bandwidth issues they'd have with private hosting.
For instance, if someone makes a YouTube channel with well-made videos teaching how to do surface-mount soldering, I would consider that a useful thing (and there are lots of videos just like this). Videos teaching people how to fix particular issues on their cars also abound there, and are very helpful.
This just isn't like stupid Twitter, where all you can do is write short text messages artificially limited to an arbitrary short length, which encourages bad writing and a complete lack of depth of thought.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @06:32AM
The usage of YouTube comments, on the other hand, should be a jailable offense.