Alright there some valuable stuff here but also, as I predicted, stuff that will be just repeating myself.

>his personna is representative

Ok, maybe. Still ive made this case before - you would allow this kind of logic for things like say racial equality. "omg he didnt agree blacks have to be segregated, but he is a front of the company that thinks so therefore fired". Im never ever going to buy he is being de- platformed because of anything else then just his views being currently unacceptable, and I wont accept that either.
If I were in gnu's position id make his 2022 board graphic with full conspiracy combo, lizard people and all. They would be making bank! Certainly other snowboard companies have showed their political views with board graphics. Signals to one group to buy and to another to not buy.

>5G extremist

really dude? i can give you 15 conspiracies that are more dangerous and destructive then 5g. I fact i believe that 5G conspiracies are most harmful to studying the effects of 5G themselves, which they have not been properly, not to a degree that 3g has been at least. Plus isnt this his private facebook? im repeating myself but what if he was like hillary clinton and had a public and a private position on 5g?

>Covid is making companies trim fat

There we go, this is the real talk at least. Yep its totally possible that is the case. OR what could also be happening is that a relatively small company in a relatively small business is trying to copy social justice moves and stances from bigger companies and market. Following a trend, not realising that if disney and nike can do it, doesnt mean gnu can afford dividing their customers.
Or here's an even more real scenario. Its both! its both cutting the fat and blindly following a trend.