<story><title>Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/freedom-of-expression-study.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Yeah, but at the same time you need to understand that you&amp;#x27;re devaluing the rights on the other side of that. The guy whose company you work for, or the company whose platform you&amp;#x27;re using, or whatever the case may be, shouldn&amp;#x27;t be obliged to have their revenue take a hit solely in support of your right. I mean, if it&amp;#x27;s not going to cost your boss&amp;#x27; company any money? Yeah OK, I can see where they should probably keep you. But if it is, well now you&amp;#x27;re putting who knows how many other jobs at risk.&lt;p&gt;You only have the right to inconvenience yourself in support of your rights. Just like me or any other person. I don&amp;#x27;t have the right to put all of my coworkers at risk so that I can call some black guy the N word for instance. That&amp;#x27;s kind of the way rights work. You have rights, but everyone else does as well.</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>When you have your career destroyed by voicing a non-pc opinion, it’s a lot more complicated than finding another Twitter to post 140 character posts.</text></item><item><author>manifestsilence</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s such an important distinction though. When people do it, it&amp;#x27;s just dissenting voices. When a platform removes someone, they can just find another platform. Twitter doesn&amp;#x27;t owe anyone a voice on it.&lt;p&gt;But when the government says you can&amp;#x27;t talk about a thing, they can make you take it down everywhere. Only this is protected, and this line needs to not be crossed.&lt;p&gt;I little sympathy for people getting upset at being deplatformed - they can go elsewhere, and their cries of freedom of expression cry wolf to the constitutional issue of those in power doing actual oppression.</text></item><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>Even when governments don’t limit freedom of expression we do it to ourselves as can be seen with all the Twitter mobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>More like:&lt;p&gt;- You have a successful GitHub project.&lt;p&gt;- One of your key contributors voted for Trump&lt;p&gt;- PC police come and demand you kick said contributor off of your project for violating CoC because they went digging through his Twitter history and found a tweet with him wearing a MAGA hat&lt;p&gt;- You disagree and say it&amp;#x27;s his right to vote for whoever he wants&lt;p&gt;- PC police do everything they can do destroy you and your project because you have run afoul of their wishes</text></comment>
<story><title>Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/freedom-of-expression-study.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Yeah, but at the same time you need to understand that you&amp;#x27;re devaluing the rights on the other side of that. The guy whose company you work for, or the company whose platform you&amp;#x27;re using, or whatever the case may be, shouldn&amp;#x27;t be obliged to have their revenue take a hit solely in support of your right. I mean, if it&amp;#x27;s not going to cost your boss&amp;#x27; company any money? Yeah OK, I can see where they should probably keep you. But if it is, well now you&amp;#x27;re putting who knows how many other jobs at risk.&lt;p&gt;You only have the right to inconvenience yourself in support of your rights. Just like me or any other person. I don&amp;#x27;t have the right to put all of my coworkers at risk so that I can call some black guy the N word for instance. That&amp;#x27;s kind of the way rights work. You have rights, but everyone else does as well.</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>When you have your career destroyed by voicing a non-pc opinion, it’s a lot more complicated than finding another Twitter to post 140 character posts.</text></item><item><author>manifestsilence</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s such an important distinction though. When people do it, it&amp;#x27;s just dissenting voices. When a platform removes someone, they can just find another platform. Twitter doesn&amp;#x27;t owe anyone a voice on it.&lt;p&gt;But when the government says you can&amp;#x27;t talk about a thing, they can make you take it down everywhere. Only this is protected, and this line needs to not be crossed.&lt;p&gt;I little sympathy for people getting upset at being deplatformed - they can go elsewhere, and their cries of freedom of expression cry wolf to the constitutional issue of those in power doing actual oppression.</text></item><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>Even when governments don’t limit freedom of expression we do it to ourselves as can be seen with all the Twitter mobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aianus</author><text>This would be fine if we had basic income but since your survival is tied to employment, employers should not be allowed to discriminate based on political opinion any more than they can discriminate against pregnant women or seniors.</text></comment>