strange headache
Banned
Unknown Worlds Entertainment has dismissed its sound designer after a slew of controversial posts on social media. [...] The controversy followed a 2016 poll by Cleveland that resurfaced over the weekend, asking whether players would prefer the ability to play Subnautica as a woman or have the studio improve upon the core game. Chylinski responded to this back in 2016, saying: "we need a 'diversity' slider in the options. It will make the character progessively [sic] darker more feminie [sic] and less sexy". [...] Users browsing through Chylinski's Twitter account have found multiple examples of insensitive statements and posts, including messages that decry immigration from third-world countries, make light of pay inequalities between genders and reference "SJW logic."
Source: www.gamesindustry.biz
I don't want to comment on whether his firing was warranted or not, but it seems to me as if twitter is increasingly becoming a liability with many of its users being out for blood. Were the developer's tweets 'insensitive' enough to be fired? Maybe, but I certainly can't conclude to his whole personality just by a couple of silly tweets. What people say, what they really think and what they actually do are vastly different things sometimes. But nowadays a couple of tweets suffice to be quickly judged and condemned by the public eye.
It seems to me as if social-media is giving way too much power to public opinion. We're all aware of the fact that large groups of people tend to be vastly hysterical. While a vocal minority of power-tripping twitter-addicts cries outrage at every silly little thing and decides the fate of individuals, the silent majority has better things to do than browsing through other people's social-media accounts.