Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by jakelazaroff on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:06PM
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The point is that there’s no fundamental difference between “you are free to say what you want, but you might get fired from SpaceX” and “you are free to say what you want, but you might get banned from Twitter”. But people — including Elon! — act as if the former is normal and rational, while the latter is some sort of affront to a free society.
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by googlryas on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:26PM
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Most people would disagree that there's no fundamental difference between an employee-employer relationship and a user-service provider relationship.
Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by jakelazaroff on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:18PM
(#31783724)
Abstractly, in the sense that "freedom from speech is not freedom from consequences", I don't think they're fundamentally different. If you're a free speech absolutist, then the nature of the relationship shouldn't matter. They're both just private organizations making choices about how they voluntarily associate with others.
Most people aren't free speech absolutists, though, and I agree that they'd think there's a fundamental difference between employer-employee relationships and user-provider relationships as a whole. But it should be significantly harder for an employer to fire an employee than for a service provider to ban a user.