The first comment on this article is the best:<p><i>I will not, NOT be using Google again until he is FIRED! Go to Egypt Wael Ghonim, you are no longer welcome here!! Going to Bling now, not Google.</i><p>I wonder what kind of features Bling has.
"There’s one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what did you do in the great World War II, you won’t have to say, "Well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana.""<p>--Patton
<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/google/status/36521734542868480" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/google/status/36521734542868480</a><p>"We're incredibly proud of you, @Ghonim, & of course will welcome you back when you're ready - cf. <a href="http://goo.gl/2BDGp" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/2BDGp</a><p>I don't understand why anyone would think Google would fire Ghonim for taking personal time to help bring democracy to his homeland. That just isn't the kind of company Google is.
US Companies, including Google involve themselves in politics (both domestic and international) all the time. I think it is a bit silly to say that "tech companies don't want to take political positions".
I've seen a 45 minute interview[0] with him. His activism doesn't have much to do with his hackery. He's clearly an NF[1] (Keirsey's Idealist temperament). Most hackers are NTs (Keirsey's Rational temperament), say, about 75%[2] of them.<p>He's very emotional.[3]<p>[0] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBAzvX9Xw4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBAzvX9Xw4</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealist_temperament" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealist_temperament</a><p>[2] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946249" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946249</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kafxFOTepSo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kafxFOTepSo</a>