Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti...
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:05PM
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> what's stopping the grocery store from denying you service because they don't like the poltical campaign bumper sticker on your car?
The principle of free speech restrains them. Nothing does—nor should—stop them.
Civil freedom of speech is difficult to enshrine into law. It balances against other freedoms in a complex, unpredictable way. (For example, the freedom of assembly. If someone says something distasteful, one should be free to not associate with them.) But it has its place as a cultural value.
It is also sensitive to context. A bumper sticker on an employee’s car is quite different from one on a customer’s.
The principle of free speech restrains them. Nothing does—nor should—stop them.
Civil freedom of speech is difficult to enshrine into law. It balances against other freedoms in a complex, unpredictable way. (For example, the freedom of assembly. If someone says something distasteful, one should be free to not associate with them.) But it has its place as a cultural value.
It is also sensitive to context. A bumper sticker on an employee’s car is quite different from one on a customer’s.