How the CCP Does Job Promotions

Re:How the CCP Does Job Promotions by credit_guy on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:58PM (#25280801)

Freedom is not a binary variable. The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, but how many people feel comfortable to freely speak their mind at one of the corporate training courses on diversity and inclusion for example? People everywhere are smart and learn that if if you know what's good for you, there are some things you should say and some things you shouldn't. The set of things you should or shouldn't say may be different in China than in the US, but the curtailment of freedom is present in both places and different only in a matter of degree.

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Re:How the CCP Does Job Promotions by gruez on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:07PM (#25283002)

>The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, but how many people feel comfortable to freely speak their mind at one of the corporate training courses on diversity and inclusion for example?

You clearly misunderstand what the First Amendment is about. It's a restraint on government, not a restraint on everyone else.

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Re:How the CCP Does Job Promotions by credit_guy on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:11PM (#25284444)

I know, but what difference does it make?

Around 1865 we reached the conclusion that it is the duty of the Government to protect some people from having their freedom taken away by some other people. Since then the Constitution started imposing restraints not only on the ability of the Government to curtail your freedom, but also the ability of your fellow citizens to do so. And this is a good thing.

But lately we started regressing. I'm talking about the cancel culture.

Do you think that if one day a person were to be physically tarred and feathered by a crowd of puritans because of some perceived transgression, that is ok? But then if the tarring and feathering is in the digital world, and much more permanent (nothing is forgotten on the internet), is that ok?

The end result is that people learn there are some things you can say, some things you can't, and some things you must say.

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