... MIT fired him not Facebook - you are not required to have perfect opinions that everyone agrees with to survive in this world, you are just required to voice them appropriately and at the correct times, which Stallman did not. Stop pretending that Free Speech is something that applies to anything other than citizens having protection from governments
The problem is the witch hunting. Invariably the wrongthink gets "leaked" to the bottom-dweller clickbait outfits like Vice or Slate who then feed it into the court of public opinion. I agree that there are a great number of things I shouldn't say at work, but that also doesn't mean I'm okay with the threat of being very publicly outed if I do. To me it's very close to the "well if you have nothing to hide" argument.
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by balaksakrionon on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:46PM
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> appropriately and at the correct times
Where and by whom is appropriateness and timeliness determined?
private institutions, and mostly at their whim and discretion
Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by dangxiaopin on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @11:46AM
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So if it was Berkeley (a state school), he should have not been fired?
I bet everyone here has one opinion that can definitely and very quickly destroy their lives. Let people be wrong, let them speak, let them think ... We can then convince and converge into a common good. Cancelling the guy that gave his life for the cause is appalling and is showing how evil social media is.