Should you also have a right to misrepresent the speech while agitating for someone's termination, in order for community and news outlets to pick it up, turn misrepresentation into lies and effectively force the termination to happen?

I don't like using the word "emergence", but there is a phenomenon here that's much more than a sum of its parts, and maybe should be considered differently. There's also the element of intent.

The bitterest pill to swallow is that the main intent on the part of Vice Media et al is advertising pageviews. Maybe Bollea can pay it forward.

> Or are you saying regardless of what you say I cannot take action because of it?

"Take action", my, my, what a genteel phrase to describe ruining people's careers and personal lives. Very civilized of you. One wonders whether those crowds who stoned unbelievers in an earlier era would have simply described themselves as "taking action" as well?

The answer to bad speech is good speech, period.

I really don’t get this attitude of being able to say whatever one wants in whatever context and not have any consequences. If I’m in a position of leadership and openly discriminate again some group, especially repeatedly and consistently I should not expect to go on business as usual.

the very fact that you feel the need to use a throwaway account to make this comment is sad