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From what I searched, the meteorologist criticized Elon Musk on her private social media, not while working.
If you're flipping burgers, and later you get home and post online on a personal account about your favorite category of adult film, it's none of your employer's business.
I totally agree. Still nothing to do with freedom of speech itself. The 1st amendment.
Freedom of speech and the First Amendment are two different things.
Freedom of speech is just that, free from government interference(look it up). You are referring to censorship.
I meant free speech, not the 1st amendment (I'm not even from the US). The concept of freedom of speech is relevant to this situation.
I believe that a company threatening to fire its employees based on an opinion they had in private or in a personal social media account is wrong. I imagine this isn't necessarily against the law, but should still be acknowledged as a form of censorship.
Of course, there are certain opinions that are absurd or even illegal(?). if a company relies on public image of its employees (not sure if i phrased this correctly) then there are situations where it's reasonable to fire the employee for an opinion, but since it's regarding opinions, this would be very difficult or impossible to define legally while still being fair.
I'm not exactly sure what my point is anymore so I'm just gonna stop arguing, but I'll maybe read some other threads for some insight on the situation
I do agree though some jobs like a meteorologist means you are on tv and affect the reputation of your business. You can't have actors on your TV show expressing opinions on social media that affect your bottom line. It's bad for business which means you can be fired. All about money sadly. That's censorship though, not freedom of speech unless your country has a different definition of the phrase than the U.S.