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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by thatsbogus on Sunday February 02, 2025 @06:38PM (#42913060)
Except not everyone in a corporation has the right to speech. I'm prohibited by my employer to say anything on the company's behalf, but the C-suite and board are able to speak on my behalf. So, the company's leadership has a right to free speech, I don't.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by gruez on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:00PM (#42913195)
>Except not everyone in a corporation has the right to speech. I'm prohibited by my employer to say anything on the company's behalf,

Yeah, that's how organizations typically work? You might have "freedom of movement", but that doesn't mean you can work in your CEO's office. Organizations also limit who has access to its bank accounts, but that doesn't mean it's suddenly illegitimate for companies to engage in transactions.

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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by otterley on Monday February 03, 2025 @02:29AM (#42915828)
You still have that right; you simply entered into a voluntary agreement with your employer not to exercise it in exchange for money. Happens all the time.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by andrepd on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:39AM (#42916896)
Let's bring back indentured servitude, you have a right to not be a slave but you should still be able to enter into a voluntary agreement not to exercise that right.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by otterley on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:41AM (#42919285)
That’s a facetious reply and you know it. Agreeing not to say certain things is practically a universal requirement of employment, for example, to preserve trade secrets. And indentured servitude is illegal.

Cut it out.

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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by inetknght on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:12PM (#42925333)
> you simply entered into a voluntary agreement with

Let's stop you right there.

Having a job is rarely truly voluntary. It's almost always obligatory instead.

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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by otterley on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:53PM (#42943971)
That's just life. Modern society obligates us to do things like feed, clothe, and house ourselves; they aren't just going to result because you exist. Getting a job is an sacrifice we make to fulfill those other basic obligations.

To discuss further would require us to go into the rabbit hole to debate whether capitalism is the right structure for society, but so far, everything else that's been tried has been worse.

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