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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday February 16 2018, @10:04PM
But that's irrelevant, too, because the Twitter posts in question weren't political - they were racist.
Not necessarily: if some political candidates running in a race make racism a political issue (for instance, one candidate is an overt racist and has a campaign promise to pass racist legislation, and the other candidate opposes this), then racist speech supporting the racist candidate could be argued to be "political".
Really, almost anything could be "political", no matter how benign or offensive, if politicians make it a political issue. This seems like something this law could be argued up to a high court over. If some political candidates want to exterminate some race of people, and some employee posts a bunch of stuff publicly supporting this, and gets fired, could they argue this law forbids this firing over a "political" issue? Remember, this really was a real political issue not that long ago across the pond.