Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : BORAXMAN
From : Cougar428
Date : Fri May 23 2025 10:20 pm
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Bo> Re: Re: Most memorable modern
Bo> By: MRO to Foriest Jan Smith on Mon May 19 2025 04:08 pm
> Re: Re: Most memorable modern
> By: Foriest Jan Smith to Cougar428 on Mon May 19 2025 09:30 pm
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> > I've definitely been met with hostility when I tell a coworker I think
> > social media has been a negative factor on the human race, lol. It has it
> > positives but generally I think it's just been used to do more harm than
> > good...
>
> social media has ruined people's relationships and lost them jobs.
>
> in my town there's a guy who was a teacher's aid of some sort but he was in
> military and overseas. his room mate posted lol at an instagram post about
> gay person being fired using this guy's account. was it on purpose or
> accidential? the person that saw it and posted on fb said it was only there
> for 10 mins at 3am in the morning before it was deleted.
>
>
> Anyways, dude gets fired from his job and entire town on fb is talking shit
> about the poor guy. and he's just serving for his country.
Bo> A think there should be laws to prevent you for getting fired for
Bo> things like that. It seems a MAJOR loophole in the protection of free
Bo> speech, is the ability for employers to disemploy someone for their
Bo> speech.
Bo> Functionally, you do NOT have any free speech, if this can happen to
Bo> you.
Bo> The problem is, America doesn't actually value personal liberty as
Bo> much as it claims to. It would rather give that liberty to the few.
Co> Educate me. Who are the few?
Bo> Capitalists. Employers.
Bo> Quite often, if there is a conflict of rights, they will favour the
Bo> minority (the employers).
Bo> One person may be in control of 1000 jobs, and Americans will default
Bo> to that one persons "right" of association to be of higher value than
Bo> the 1000 peoples right to Freedom of Speech.
I guess we can agree to disagree.
Have a great day!
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