I worked for my state briefly and they beat us over the head that anything we said in email or teams was archived and subject to FOIA requests. Shouldn’t be hard to find out what these folks were actually saying for any press agency with the balls to go looking for it.
Haven’t read the article, but I’ll bet it was MS Teams.
My God NBC can’t even put the important fact in the headline? It was a political firing. Maybe they broke some rules but they weren’t fired for breaking the rules. They were fired because of the person that they were targeting.
We have a vibrant and sometimes political teams chat at my work, we would be toast if we were taken over by the magas. Yes we know it’s not private and do have also a group text. But haven’t ever worried since the whole organization is laid back regarding language and expression.
If I worked for the government? Hell no. No teams chat, not even “how was your weekend?” Nope nope nope.
to think, those fucking idiots thought they could bring down the US by flying planes into the twin towers when all they needed to do was wait for Republicans to get enough power.
Republicans were in power when those planes hit the towers.
enough
I mean the rampant islamophobia and patriot washing of conservative media absolutely got more pervasive thanks in part to those planes. Probably not the domino, but certainly moved us in this direction.
it got dialed up, sure, but it was always there. it’s not like the US started the first Gulf War after 9/11. you were already moving in that direction for decades, 9/11 just happened to be spectacular enough to be an accelerant. they got to falsely justify more atrocities faster.
Bush 2 wouldn’t have been reelected if it wasn’t for 9/11.
We wouldn’t have had the patriot act.
We wouldn’t have spent trillions on the wars.
There’s absolutely no way we would have ended up where we are right now if it wasn’t for 9/11.
that’s where we disagree. just because this was used as justification for a lot of bullshit doesn’t mean something else wouldn’t be otherwise. it would’ve taken a bit longer but it was going to happen one way or another
This is an excuse and nothing more to consolidate power, remove oversight, and sabotage the American intelligence apparatus on behalf of Russia.
Sounds like they specifically targeted the gay and trans groups, which is infuriating but can’t possibly be surprising. They’ll be coming for any group that had their own chat rooms – minorities, Muslims, whatever.
This is America now.
Russian Asset says what?
Does anyone else not talk about that stuff on work accounts? They’re just used for work and I assume my boss and his boss and their bosses will all read everything.
I don’t think I’d be comfortable talking about stuff on a work chat, but this sounds like it was specifically a support group chat for lgbtq+ employees. The entire point of that would be to discuss that aspect of themselves.
Edit: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism-lgbtq-purges
That makes a bit more sense but I still wouldn’t trust it. We can get together outside of work.
I think for younger people, this is probably feeling like a betrayal. Almost like, “The boss said smoking was OK as long as we stayed in the smoking area and didn’t litter our butts everywhere, but then they just up and fired everyone that took smoke breaks the other day.”
“Don’t smoke at work” is an easy thing to say, and most people adhere to that in general. But it’s still fucked up to fire the smokers, when company policy just literal days before was “it’s fine, just follow these basic rules.”
Older people grew up keeping their private life private a lot more than younger people today, who have grown up online having their data mined constantly. Just by the nature of having grown up without ubiquitous data harvesting devices feeding analytics companies, we had more privacy as a default condition.
These particular folks were told they had a safe space for the chats they had, and then the rug was pulled from under them.
