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This is absurd. Employee/employer relationship is nowhere near the same as citizen/government relationship.

• js8 8y ago
  It's not the same, of course. In the past, citizen/government relationship was the only social hierarchy in town and not offending people in the hierarchy was a matter of life and death. Eventually, we replaced it with many little social hierarchies, like employee/employer, but social hierarchies nonetheless. Now it's only a minor inconvenience in life to make any of those little emperors angry. However, that said, the arguments for free speech are the same. People should have freedom to speak truth to power and this freedom is beneficial. This includes freedom to speak truth to the outsiders of the social group in which the hierarchy happens to be. And it also establishes the boundary where that social hierarchy can extends its power.
  • 0xBA5ED 8y ago
    You're overthinking it. ArenaNet is a business. She was their employee. This relationship is voluntary on both sides. If she behaves in a manner which undermines their interests, they have every right to terminate the relationship. The person she blew up on is a streamer with significant exposure to their target market. If she wasn't mixing "work talk" into her personal account and the disagreement was not related to work, I think it would be a different story, but that isn't what happened.