> What someone does legally, without harming or threatening anyone else, in their private life outside of their job, should have little to zero impact on their ability to maintain employment.

Except this has always been the case. What you do outside your work has always affected your ability to maintain employment. The difference is that now those who benefited from this in the past are now suffering from it.

> She was clearly targeted, ostracized, and fired for speaking her mind.

No, this is literally not what happened. I can point to numerous cases of people speaking their mind without suffering from repercussions.

Pretending this was about someone "speaking their mind" ignores the reality and nuances of what is actually happening.