[c0achmcguirk]

Is this a precedent that Google or any company wants to have, though? Engineers with access to company-wide tools or extensions can put political or divisive content into them?

This is more than just a "poster in the cafe" because of the reach and invasiveness of the approach.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, speaking for myself only.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Is this a precedent that Google or any company wants to have, though?

Google is free to pull the tool or change the documented process. (I admit, the process seems lax.) Instead, they fired the employee. That’s an aggressive response.

> the reach and invasiveness of the approach

It’s a pop-up generated when one visits the site of the “firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company”. That sounds like a reasonable scope.

Again, using a tool whose entire purpose is to serve site-specific pop-ups.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-goog...