It's also important to remember that freedom of speech is only protected from the government (which is why your East Germany example is nonsensical). The first

It's also important to remember that freedom of speech is only protected from the government (which is why your East Germany example is nonsensical). The first admendment says you can stand on a public street corner and yell "God hates Fags" however, if you do so on my property I will remove you. Mozilla is not a governmental body and (so long as it doesn't violate the protected classes as codified by law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class) can hire and fire people to project whatever image they see fit.