It seems like it wasn't all that long ago that people were up in arms about companies considering everything an employee said on their own time to potentially r

It seems like it wasn't all that long ago that people were up in arms about companies considering everything an employee said on their own time to potentially represent the company. This is why companies did that, because interlopers come along and threaten you bad publicity if you don't do something about the person with the wrongthink. There was never a general reciprocity principle at play with these people, it was always about who has power over whom. if they have power, they punish people they dislike. If they don't have power, they appeal to fairness until they can get into a position of power. Don't give them power by acceding to threats.