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No it's not, but the extent it's being reported in that article goes far beyond the usual company paranoia into outright battrout insanity. Going to the extreme of shuffling around employees who like the status of someone leaving for a new job is just smurfed up. Especially considering they're a company that hasn't really made games outside of this team for the last few years as it is, and who I would not be surprised to never see make a game again at this point.
Is it? Employers use social media extensively today, it's not unexpected that they would re-evaluate an employee's role based on showing solidarity online with a former colleague. Ironic, how we showcase our personal lives online yet become indignant when others take advantage of that accessibility.
Like skyblade said, we're talking about friends and coworkers liking a status update about a new job from someone who's mental health suffered due to his treatment by Konami. Liking that someone who wasn't doing well in their present job is moving on to a new one is not tantamount to showing solidarity against the company they work for. An employer who actually thinks that is displaying the sort of paranoia that draws their actual sanity into question.

I'm sure not even you can actually defend that sort of behaviour as being appropriate in these circumstances. We aren't talking about employees going on Facebook and saying all the jews should be lead to gas chambers, or that Konami is secretly murdering kittens every time an employee is late to work.