GitHub fired a Jewish employee after he posted in the company’s internal Slack to, “stay safe homies, Nazis are about,” during the attack on the US Capitol, reports Business Insider
“Within one day of last week’s attack on the Capitol, at least
three states introduced legislation to criminalize protest. The bills,
advanced by Republican lawmakers in Florida, Mississippi, and Indiana,
do not represent new strategies designed specifically to prevent future
right-wing insurrections. Rather, they draw from a set of policies that
numerous state legislators introduced this summer in order to appear
tough on protests against police brutality.“
The narrower Indiana bill would broaden the definition of rioting —
which the Florida bill did as well — and would criminalize camping at
the Indiana state Capitol. The Mississippi bill would also allow the
state to strip unemployment benefits from anyone who pleads guilty to
participating in disruptive protests.
