You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
-1 points

I totally agree. Still nothing to do with freedom of speech itself. The 1st amendment.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Freedom of speech and the First Amendment are two different things.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

Freedom of speech is just that, free from government interference(look it up). You are referring to censorship.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point
*

I meant free speech, not the 1st amendment (I’m not even from the US). The concept of freedom of speech is relevant to this situation.

I believe that a company threatening to fire its employees based on an opinion they had in private or in a personal social media account is wrong. I imagine this isn’t necessarily against the law, but should still be acknowledged as a form of censorship.

Of course, there are certain opinions that are absurd or even illegal(?). if a company relies on public image of its employees (not sure if i phrased this correctly) then there are situations where it’s reasonable to fire the employee for an opinion, but since it’s regarding opinions, this would be very difficult or impossible to define legally while still being fair.

I’m not exactly sure what my point is anymore so I’m just gonna stop arguing, but I’ll maybe read some other threads for some insight on the situation

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

I do agree though some jobs like a meteorologist means you are on tv and affect the reputation of your business. You can’t have actors on your TV show expressing opinions on social media that affect your bottom line. It’s bad for business which means you can be fired. All about money sadly. That’s censorship though, not freedom of speech unless your country has a different definition of the phrase than the U.S.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Microblog Memes

!microblogmemes@lemmy.world

Create post

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

Community stats

  • 11K

    Monthly active users

  • 2K

    Posts

  • 88K

    Comments