Can’t really manufacture any outrage about this. Using internal tools to push a personal agenda will never end well.

I’m sure that the google executives are probably in the wrong here. But if I set up a thing to spam email an executive of some sort at my job, I’d at minimum get a strong talking-to. 

Getting your code review approved by your teammate like its any other CR, which is likely what that vaguely refers to in order to confuse the uninformed reader, is NOT the same as getting approval to deploy this activist feature to production, which she likely did not have. If any of my engineers went rogue and…

Should’ve waited:

she described pushing a bit of code that would generate a small popup in the Chrome web browser on company machines. “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities,” the popup read

She wrote a virus, or trojan horse, and implemented it on the company network. No wonder she was fired.

Goodbye unproductive activist employees. 

It’s quite possible the code approval was strictly along the lines of a typical code review “Will this code blow up our servers” being the primary question that the reviewers looked at.

I’m not at Google, if anything I work for a competitor to one of their main business lines.

uh, actually it’s just time for millennials to grow up. You don’t get to “dissent” publicly in your job.  Adults know this is how you get fired.  Such employees SHOULD be fired. The ONLY protected “dissent” is union organizing.

Given the sheer size of Google’s workforce, you’d expect some small number of people to be unhappy and up in arms at some point at all times. Even the full Google Walkout last year was less than one-fifth of their employees. 

Fair.

I dunno. This will be unpopular but...

I work in tech and trust me there’s more to it than a big mean company shitting on the little guy here.

I don’t know about this: “as an “owner” of the corporate policy notifier popup, she needed none.”   This was likely seen as an exploit.  They are certainly using this to remove troublemakers, but couldn’t it technically be seen as XSS or exploiting a security misconfiguration?

“As the article says she got approval and her code was reviewed before it was pushed...”

She put unauthorized code on the company’s intranet? It’s early so maybe I misread, but of not nothing after this really matters.

We need to be petitioning to stop fully autonomous driving

The context you’re missing there is that the iOS version is out through Arcade, but they do have an upcoming Steam version that isn’t out yet. 

I agree. I’m all about anarchy and raging against the machine, the machine being peak game industry advertising and commercialisation... But, this is barely even funny and it does distract from the show, for something that you cannot bullshit me was not a publicity stunt. Your game is about golf, you roll golfballs…