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>You can't just fire people for criticism. Why do you believe that?
by daenz 4y ago
>You can't just fire people for criticism.
Why do you believe that?
- rg111 4y agoIt looks bad. You can, legally. But after so many events of signalling support of free-speech, I think it is massively embarrassing. (I am neither a Musk fan nor a hater)
- daenz 4y agoI have never taken "free speech" to mean "in all places, all the time," so I don't see a conflict. The public sphere (irl and on the internet) is where people are advocating for free speech. A private company's internal email list does not qualify.
- loudmax 4y agoTwitter is also a private company. They are under no legal or moral obligation to disseminate all views.
- daenz 4y agoYou're right, they aren't! Which is why Musk wants to buy them and hold them to the standard of a de facto public townhall.
- oittaa 4y agoI don't understand why so many people have a hard time understanding this even though it has been repeated like a million times at this point. Are these people illiterate or using some kind of TSLAQ block list like in Twitter, because they're afraid of seeing any dissenting opinions?
- scollet 4y ago
- scollet 4y agoIt does though. Especially.
- lp0_on_fire 4y agoI'm going to go out on a limb here but I think most most people acting in good faith understand the difference between the public sphere and their place of employment with regard to free speech. For example: if these employees had been other employees (or Musk himself) people racial slurs I think that's reason to fire them but I don't think it's reason to excise them from the public discourse.
- scollet 4y ago> (I am neither a Musk fan nor a hater) Don't give them an inch.
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