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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by claudeganon on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:34PM (#21195488)
While I agree with your general sentiment, free speech absolutism is meaningless in employment settings without something like militant labor organizing to defend it. It’s not protected in many cases and they can always just fire you and exhaust your resources in any resulting legal battle.

If you had a union on the other hand, it could stipulate protection of this kind of speech as part of the employment contract and marshal the resources to mount an actual, meaningful defense if your employer were to try these tactics.

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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by andrekandre on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:06PM (#21197261)
> While I agree with your general sentiment, free speech absolutism is meaningless in employment settings without something like militant labor organizing to defend it.

couldn’t that also be accomplished though employee ownership? e.g. without the militancy?

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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by claudeganon on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:36PM (#21198032)
Absolutely! Co-ops are a great way to enshrine these protections as well.
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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by rumanator on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:33AM (#21200044)
> While I agree with your general sentiment, free speech absolutism is meaningless in employment settings without something like militant labor organizing to defend it.

Sounds an awful lot like a socialist euphemism for an ideologically-motivated blend of censorship.

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Re:US workers may have to change social media use as firms a... by iamasoftwaredev on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:46PM (#21205765)
I don't see how you can possibly get that from the comment.

Socialism, yeah okay. Pro-censorship?

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