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Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: A San Diego CEO was fired after saying on Facebook that he would get a "sniper rifle" and "kill the president-elect." Matt Harrigan, CEO of the cybersecurity firm PacketSled, posted the comments on his personal Facebook page, but they ended up on Reddit where Trump supporters found the comments and mobilized to contact law enforcement. "I'm going to kill the president. Elect," Harrigan wrote. "Bring it Secret Service." PacketSled said in a statement that it had accepted Harrigan's resignation. "The PacketSled Board of Directors accepted the resignation of President and CEO Matthew Harrigan, effective immediately," the company said. "We want to be very clear, PacketSled does not condone the comments made by Mr. Harrigan, which do not reflect the views or opinions of the company, its employees, investors or partners." In a previous statement, the company said it reported the information to the Secret Service and placed Harrigan on administrative leave. According to The Next Web, Harrigan apologized for his remarks and said the threats were meant to be a joke: "My recent Facebook comment was intended to be a joke, in the context of a larger conversation, and only privately shared as such. Anyone who knows me, knows that I do not engage in this form of rhetoric with any level of seriousness and the comment most certainly does not represent my real personal views in any regard. I apologize if anything that I said was either taken seriously, was offensive, or caused any legitimate concern."
...and the exact same thing can be said for "the right." Society has unfortunately become a set of echo chambers, with roughly half the population in each one.
Ridiculous! He had no business being CEO with that kind of mentality.
Mr. Harrigan, next time you should think better of what you are about to say. What you said was not funny.
You could have simply said "There's nothing we can do about the travesty of this election. Except maybe the Second Amendment People can do something, I don't know."
See, that way it's funny, isn't it? That way it's just a joke. Everybody would have LOLed.
I know you're going to disagree with this, but it's much harder to manage that on the right. Remember, there is this prevalent thing that surrounds all of us, whether we want it to or not. It's called the media. And it tends to have a fairly large left lean to it. And as a conservative, I promise you, it's nearly impossible to avoid it barring locking yourself in a cabin in the middle of the woods. For large media outlets, the right has Fox News, arguably The Wallstreet Journal....anything else? The left has CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NYT, WaPo, literally the entire movie and TV for entertainment sector and on and on. I tune in to some of my favorite shows, and I get liberal propaganda tossed in because most of the actors are liberals themselves and just can't help themselves. Geek and Sundry I'm looking at you. This is what creates the liberal echo chamber. If you can avoid that, then congrats to you.
And I remember him being executed, with full agreement by right-wing white dudes.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
I used to work for the guy, and I agree 100% with your statement.
The solution, as always, is to never use Facebook...
... or if that is too extreme, then do what I do: Treat Facebook as a read-only medium. I occasionally check in on my friends, but I never post anything myself. I do the same on LinkedIn, which is even more ethically challenged than Facebook.
This is so true! The split this time was more vertical than horizontal i.e. not so much Left vs Right, as much as Top vs Bottom. So Hilary and Ted Cruz found themselves on the same side - establishment, Wall Street, trade deals,... while Trump and Sanders did on the other end. The only differences b/w Trump and Sanders were things like Minimum wage, BLM, Abortion, Muslims, Comprehensive Immigration Reforms vs the Wall. But even Bernie was against any more immigration - legal or illegal - as long as there is such a high unemployment rate in the country