I feel like you're not being charitable in the least; you're not addressing any of the points I'm making. Yes, people should get to say whatever they want. Ye

I feel like you're not being charitable in the least; you're not addressing any of the points I'm making. Yes, people should get to say whatever they want. Yes, everybody should face consequences of what they say. I already said that it's reasonable for an organization to want their figureheads to represent them, and talked about one possible mechanism for achieving that. You characterize the people who reacted in this story as "the little guy", but they clearly are in a position of power, and you can tell because they got him fired. In what way was the CEO in this scenario abusing his position of power or his "platform" (I'm not even sure exactly what you mean by that word here)? He made those contributions as a private individual, not from the company's coffers. As for "abusing" one's wealth, some people clearly do that (by bribing their way into political positions or into contracts or whatever), but that's not what's happening here.