To quote many commenters when this has happened to people on the wrong side of the political divide: "Well, they're a private company and they can fire who the

To quote many commenters when this has happened to people on the wrong side of the political divide: "Well, they're a private company and they can fire who they want to." Or if you prefer, "freedom of speech doesn't apply to companies". Personally, I think this weird mash-up of the personal and the private has landed us in a new and fresh hell and it's only going to get worse. Eventually we'll need to find a way out or we'll get to the zainy ends of your employer firing you because of the way you voted or what you wrote in your diary - but we need to be consistent in our separation between personal and corporate.