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A friend summed it up like this: Modern employment. Can't speak freely before you have a job (social media vetting), can't speak freely in your own time while
by _delirium 13y ago
A friend summed it up like this:
Modern employment. Can't speak freely before you have a job (social media vetting), can't speak freely in your own time while you have a job (clauses in your contract), can't speak freely when you no longer have a job.
- cududa 13y agoYou can speak as freely as you want - there's just a difference between public and private speech. It's your own choice to publicize your opinions on social media and the internet.
- _delirium 13y agoI wouldn't say having to confine your speech to private quarters where word can't get traced back to you is being able to "speak freely". If you can't write a newspaper letter to the editor, or post an update on Facebook, without your creepy employer stalking you and disciplining you for it, you aren't able to speak freely.
- cududa 13y agoAt any point in history, if you wrote a "Letter to the editor" disparaging your company or boss, you'd most likely get fired. How is posting on a public web service different?
- CapitalistCartr 13y agoBecause now you risk your employment by writing a letter that isn't about your employer at all. Anything your (prospective) employer doesn't like is verboten. So people deliberately circumscribe their speech.