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Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer’s assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR.

  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    sad to say it because these people absolutely don’t deserve the consequences from a moral point of view, but from a practical point of view this is how mfs learn to value their privacy.

    freedom of speech doesn’t protect itself.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      I am private about a lot. This is something that I am proud to stand up against. Kirk was a shitty person. We shouldn’t, we cannot, let them intimidate us.

      If we want freedom of speech, we cannot afford to hide our words behind anonymity.

    • expatriado@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      freedom of speech is between government and individuals, if i post “Kirk’s death is a good thing” on LinkedIn and bellow me is my employer’s logo, they are free to fire me, since that’s not how they want to be represented