> > Wearing a MAGA hat is literally political speech protected by the first amendment. > Sure, but (at least from my understanding of both US and German law) e

> > Wearing a MAGA hat is literally political speech protected by the first amendment. > Sure, but (at least from my understanding of both US and German law) employers can demand that their employees not blast their individual political speech into the faces of their colleagues or customers. But this isn't "don't talk politics with colleagues or customers". This is "don't talk politics when off work, ever", which is a whole different ball game. > > But to argue that that was the intent behind the code of conduct policy is stretching reasonability way too far. > The thing is it's almost exclusively Republicans and outright neo-Nazis who regularly and intentionally cross the lines between speech and harassment. Left-leaning people, from the odd "off to Gulag" meme and beaten up Spencer memes except, don't do this. It's not a fault of the CoC that today's Republican Party is a toxic white male supremacist hellhole. Um. Every "look at this deplatforming!" post I've seen on HN has been against someone insufficiently far left, being attacked by someone farther left - including this one. How is it that the Right is both so prevalent that their harassment campaigns are the vast majority of incidents, while also being so ineffective that all the major events we see here are the opposite?