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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by base698 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:14AM (#12999520)
Speech and ideas of all colors need to flourish. That's how bad ideas get discussed and stamped out: think of natural selection. Right now we have a situation where groups are too afraid to discuss so these bad ideas fester in their own filter bubbles.

On Liberty: Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by Angostura on Monday November 21, 2016 @02:18PM (#13008255)
Bad ideas get stamped out by people pointing out they are bad ideas. If a CEO supports a spectacularly bad idea, it is not a problem if someone gives him the boot.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by mzw_mzw on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:42PM (#13009931)
Even if the idea is completely unrelated to the company? And even then, we weren't talking about CEOs. We were talking about people like the low-level employees at GrubHub told that they should keep real quiet about their unapproved opinions if they wanted to keep their jobs.
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