Jason Fried, founder and CEO of Basecamp, is the latest person to choose the way of pain by publicly airing his company’s management changes. The specific part that has got them in hot water is their new policy around the discussion of “politics, advocacy or society at large,” which one of those blunt-force trauma sentences that really should have been reconsidered before posting.
Coincidentally, this memo came just after 21 of the 58 employees of Basecamp wanted to join the Diversity, Ethics and Inclusion Council: https://twitter.com/Rahsfan/status/1387042197321633792
I would guess that was the precise politics in question.