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Re:Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over w... by Byteflux on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:01AM (#29976748)
Your statement doesn't align with reality, so I'll assume you're stating an opinion rather than a fact. Free speech is an inalienable right protected by the First Amendment and afforded to both individuals and businesses, that is a fact.
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Re:Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over w... by hhjinks on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:50AM (#29977395)
Free Speech is inalienable under the constitution, until it isn't. The First Amendment isn't a natural right. Humans have a natural right to free speech, businesses don't.
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Re:Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over w... by int_19h on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:42AM (#29990693)
"Businesses" is not a useful distinction here, because an individual can be a business in their personal capacity. What matters are legal corporations, which would not exist at all if not for the government chartering them. The question is whether those fictitious legal entities have a right to free speech that is separate from such right of all the persons who constitute them.
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