Hello I am brand new to Twitter, what are you guys up to
— John Barron (@barronjohn1946) January 9, 2021
Evidently, getting involved with an insurrection that could’ve led to a coup is hazardous to your career’s health. An array of people, including a CEO, attorney, real estate broker, professor, school occupational therapist, fireman and others, have been outed and many fired from their jobs.
About 100 people have been arrested since last Wednesday when avid Trump supporters disrupted lawmakers, as they were confirming the Electoral College results and President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. People on social media outed the rioters and pressured companies that employed them to now summarily fire the protestors.
I’m far from a Constitutional scholar, but I believe that First Amendment rights only prohibit people from being punished by the government for their speech, not by a private employer, so companies have the discretion to terminate a person’s employment.
I understand how incensed people are over what happened. It was frightening to watch. Growing up in America, seeing the videos, it felt as if the violence and mayhem took place in another country. We are supposed to be the ones who work things out peacefully—not through strong-armed violent tactics. How can you not hate someone who shows up to the Capitol Building, where our congressmen and women work, with guns, weapons and devices to harm our political leaders, or worse? It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon and disparage these people.
This is Paul Davis. Paul is a lawyer. He’s also associate general counsel & director of human resources at Goosehead Insurance. Today he stormed the capitol building in an attempt to stage a coup against the US government and documented it (!) on Instagram. @followgoosehead pic.twitter.com/eTkoK92ujL
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) January 7, 2021
BREAKING: Former state Rep. Rick Saccone has resigned as an adjunct professor at St Vincent College after school’s investigation into his Facebook video at the Capitol. @KDKA pic.twitter.com/ULPD06rfgX
— Andy Sheehan (@AndySheehankdka) January 7, 2021
Hey future Gold Coast clients, be sure to ask for their new agent Libby Andrews (she’s famous)… ✌️https://t.co/d406eHvZ5f pic.twitter.com/c0XjEoeM0f
— Mighty_Mark (@P210Mark) January 8, 2021
Like most Americans, I’m a believer in free speech and not a proponent of violence, riots, mayhem and lawlessness to get your way. In the wake of the aggressive tactics used by Trump supporters, there was a swift concerted movement to literally shut people up. Parler, the social media site of preference for right-leaning people, was shut down, as all of its vendors cut ties with the platform. Thousands of “conservative” accounts on Twitter were locked down. Republicans claimed that they lost large numbers of followers.
In the U.S. we can separate our anger from forgetting about the Constitution and succumbing to mob mentality. Free speech is the cornerstone of our rights. Imagine if you can’t freely share your thoughts. What happens to your job if you say something that’s not aligned with the approved narrative? You run the risk of being canceled, losing your job and livelihood.
You have to keep in mind that today the target is the Republicans and Trump supporters who are being silenced. It could easily change. Moderate Democrats could be silenced by their more leftist party members or vice versa. It’s a dangerous slippery slope if we allow this to happen.
When I was a kid, the Democrats and “leftists” had a saying, “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” We should bear this in mind before we silence free speech that we don’t like.
Free speech is not being suppressed. The tech giants are not in a position to nor are controlling the hate speech (which you seem to support as free speech but with opposing views). As a business they reserve the right to restrict the usage of their platform that furthers hate speech. If you’re confused about this, you should return to school.
100% on point. Screaming “fire” in a crowed theater is not protected speech.
Red Bean
Not sure what alternate universe you live in by saying big tech is not suppressing free speech, when the NY Post is blocked and parler is taken down but the Supreme Leader of Iran and people that peddle in pornogrephy are allowed on social media platforms.
Definitely not the alternative universe that lets you develop illogical theories and arguments without understanding the basics of how the world wide web operates. Are you new to this world? Did you just discover internet? Supreme Leader of Iran, not the Supreme Leader of the United States (even though you’d love for a traitor with zero respect for the democratic practices of this nation to be one). You also don’t have facts on hand where Twitter has cited tweets by many others, regardless of their stature, as non-compliant with their policies. You also cannot spell appropriately, so I imagine that you’re only rattled by these events because you’re a long time hater of Democrats, and a result immigrants, minorities and anything that doesn’t align with your vision of “America the great”. I’m willing to bet my money that you see yourself as a victim due to the “tyranny of the liberal progressives”, when in reality its probably due to your inability to have identified a path for your own success and growth (including intellectual) throughout your lifetime.
The Smartest Guy in the Room
Hey Zing not sure what school you attended but you couldn’t be more wrong as to what took place. It has been proven that the leftists, MSM machine only restrict “FREE” speech that that doesn’t follow their beliefs. Please advise why the MSM, Facebook, and the likes of Twitter didn’t have a problem with the burning buildings in Seattle and Minneappolis this past Summer !!
Definitely didn’t attend the school of regressive thinking the you and your ilk carry that fail to leverage their education to enlighten themselves with sense and nonsense. Unfortunately, do seem to far beyond the point of repair so the best I can do is to recommend you drop your tRump branded koolaid, and drop your red hat in the trash can where it belongs.