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[–] Somali 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

You have the right to free speech, not the right to avoid consequences.

By that logic the government has the right to imprison and torture you for it and label it a "consequence". No right to "avoid consequences", remember? That electric shock to your balls? Just a "consequence", brah! Feel free to keep speaking, you have the right!

It was fair though. If Mozilla were to continue Brandon's employment, it would have cost them a lot of money and marketshare. His actions were reflecting on Mozilla, and they decided that the negative press from people who support gay marriage was not worth his value as an employee.

There was zero cost assessment done to keeping him vs firing him. A tiny amount of people pretended to be outraged over a private position that was in no way associated with Mozilla and fired a guy the majority supported or didn't care about. His value as an employee was that he started the fucking company and that Mozilla has become an unusable pile of adware infested shit since and has been dumped left and right.

Except in the real world, you are free to find another job. It's your fault if no one will hire you for the same job as before. No one cares if you donate to anti-gay-marriage organizations at McDonalds store #34587. You don't have a constitutional right to be employed in your field at the same position you were at at a previous job.

Except now in the real world you are forever tainted as homophobe/transphobe/literally Hitler any time someone searches your name on google before hiring you. Whether that is true or not doesn't matter. The end result is exactly the same as making free speech illegal and the government can easily exploit this avenue. And it doesn't matter if you're a CEO or a McDonalds trainee since all it takes is one person to snitch on having seen the McDonalds trainee at a Trump railly. The end result is that you can never utter a personal opinion deemed "controversial" or "politically incorrect" if you want to hold down a job, which is the foundation for every aspect of a normal life. It doesn't even matter if you said it on the job or not. This has the exact same outcome as banning free speech does.

Hopefully you never say anything that could ever be construed as a negative by any special snowflake in the whole wide world since by your logic it's perfectly fine for you to never be employable afterwards ever again. Of course judging by your politically correct shilling you shouldn't have that problem.

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[–] laikaislost 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

By that logic the government has the right to imprison and torture you for it and label it a "consequence"

No, that logic does not follow. There is a difference between the government and people. One has the right to imprison you, the other does not. You are free to call someone a jerk, but you have no right to avoid any returned insults. Don't make a strawman from that.

A tiny amount of people pretended to be outraged over a private position that was in no way associated with Mozilla and fired a guy the majority supported or didn't care about

You have obviously done very little research on this issue. The gay community is VERY vocal about this type of thing, and I personally know 4 people who switched browsers over this issue. GLBT people make up somewhere around 3% of the population, and it does not make financial sense to alienate 3% of your customer base.

Imagine if a CEO of a company was a Klansman, or was a neo-nazi. Should the board of directors be able to fire that person for that reason? Many black people, or jewish people, or people who don't hate either group may not buy their products knowing that their purchase will be giving money to the CEO indirectly. The board should have the right to say "You are reflecting poorly on our company" and then fire them.

Except now in the real world you are forever tainted as homophobe/transphobe/literally Hitler any time someone searches your name on google before hiring you.

Then maybe you shouldn't support those groups, or maybe you should start a company yourself, or change jobs.

The end result is exactly the same as making free speech illegal

No it's not. The difference is arrest vs freedom. The government can arrest you, people cannot. Free speech cannot give you a criminal record.

all it takes is one person to snitch on having seen the McDonalds trainee at a Trump railly

The McDonalds would risk pissing off all the Trump supporters and loosing that business.

The end result is that you can never utter a personal opinion deemed "controversial" or "politically incorrect" if you want to hold down a job, which is the foundation for every aspect of a normal life

Then keep your views private, or in close confidence. If you are worried about how the public will recieve your views, don't yell them, or make them publically known. If you really have to (i.e. to change other's political opinion) then prepare for the consequences.

Sure, it sucks but by making everything a protected class, you are effectively revoking the freedoms of other people to support the messages they want.

Of course judging by your politically correct shilling

Leave personal insults somewhere else. Keep discussion to facts and not personal attacks.