US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by LocalH on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:27PM (#21195396)

That's honestly part of the problem.

Increasingly, every single right that we have that was enumerated in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been encroached upon by the government via workarounds and loopholes (see: Commerce Clause).

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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by claudeganon on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:58PM (#21195797)

Government encroachment of these rights has always been a problem, but the real issue is that America tries to nurture two systems within itself: a liberal, democratic government with correspondingly enshrined rights and an economy arranged around authoritarian hierarchies with no such protections.

While it’s all well and good to prevent the government from quashing speech and other rights, when your boss can fire you for saying something they disagree with or if you refuse things like workplace surveillance (potentially costing you your housing and healthcare in the process), these protections seem pretty threadbare. I think we need to do more to check the authoritarianism of our economy if we have any real aspiration to adhere to them.

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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by willis936 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:47PM (#21195660)

If it’s such an issue then surely a larger federal government is the solution.

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