'The mask is off in tech. You're getting fired if you speak out'

William Fitzgerald has a lot on his mind. It's on the button of 2pm in Dublin when the WhatsApp call notification appears, making it barely 6am where he is, on the Pacific coast of the United States. What's it like in that part of the world? "That's a big question," the Waterford-born founder of The Worker Agency says, answering what was meant to be a light starter question about the weather. "It's kind of surreal. I lived in Hong Kong when the students [in 2012] protested against the curriculum being changed. I was working for Google at the time, and…