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A lot of people being the media in the US that pushes the narrative to the extreme. You could make the argument ( perhaps weakly for Parler now) that they are r

A lot of people being the media in the US that pushes the narrative to the extreme. You could make the argument ( perhaps weakly for Parler now) that they are right leaning social platforms that contain extremes. The same way Twitter is left leaning and contains left and right extremes. Companies in the states appear to wear their political allegiances as a badge of honour eliciting an us-or-them reaction. Left and Right ideologies often have wants which flip from side to side, generation to generation. It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct.

_kbh_ 6y ago
> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct. Isn't this a feature of at will employment?. I know there are some protected attributes, but I was under the impression you could be fired for pretty much anything outside of those protected attributes.
user-the-name 6y ago
> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct. You have zero idea what evidence there is and isn't. The evidence has not been revealed by those involved, and it certainly hasn't been published in this short article you just read. You just assumed that "she used two sites" was the absolute entirety of the story.
- vergessenmir 6y ago
  The agency president tweeted in now-deleted tweets that Colleen was fired for using conservative platforms and that they do not condone this activity. Followed by an apology for any offence caused. If there was further evidence she did not feel the need to disclose further. However it does appear that mentioning the association was enough justification. Also the complaints that were aired didn't provide any further evidence other than the fact that she was on the platform. Again only providing the association as the source of the concern. How do we get from that to a very public firing over a space of a few hours? More evidence may come to light but there are several things very problematic about this.
  - user-the-name 6y ago
    There's a lot hiding in that one word, "using". What exactly were they "used" for?
vidarh 6y ago
> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct. Indeed workers rights in the US are among the weakest in the developed world. As shocked as I was at the weak protections in the UK when I moved here, even the UK is magnitudes better in this respect. Yet this kind of worker hostile environment is what US voters keeps voting for.

_kbh_ 6y ago

> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct. Isn't this a feature of at will employment?. I know there are some protected attributes, but I was under the impression you could be fired for pretty much anything outside of those protected attributes.

user-the-name 6y ago

> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct. You have zero idea what evidence there is and isn't. The evidence has not been revealed by those involved, and it certainly hasn't been published in this short article you just read. You just assumed that "she used two sites" was the absolute entirety of the story.

vergessenmir 6y ago
The agency president tweeted in now-deleted tweets that Colleen was fired for using conservative platforms and that they do not condone this activity. Followed by an apology for any offence caused. If there was further evidence she did not feel the need to disclose further. However it does appear that mentioning the association was enough justification. Also the complaints that were aired didn't provide any further evidence other than the fact that she was on the platform. Again only providing the association as the source of the concern. How do we get from that to a very public firing over a space of a few hours? More evidence may come to light but there are several things very problematic about this.
- user-the-name 6y ago
  There's a lot hiding in that one word, "using". What exactly were they "used" for?

vidarh 6y ago

> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct. Indeed workers rights in the US are among the weakest in the developed world. As shocked as I was at the weak protections in the UK when I moved here, even the UK is magnitudes better in this respect. Yet this kind of worker hostile environment is what US voters keeps voting for.