Posted on 08/22/2014 2:57:52 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
Facebook is in bed with Obama deeply -my /your government.
People put way too much personal stuff on Facebook. It’s the Internet folks, and once you put it out there you can’t get it back.
Nope. Not the issue here. The First Amendment prevents government from telling you what or what not to say -- this isn't government, this is an employer. Different ball game. Employers can fire employees for any reason or no reason, unless a contract or local law says otherwise.
In the 1968 riots in Chicago, the old Mayor Daley gave instructions to shoot to kill anyone throwing a Molotov cocktail. No questions asked, just kill him.
What happens on the internet stays on the internet.
I am like that, too. Everyone wants to be known and to have friends :), I guess.
Not just Facebook. Any online forum. Including this one.
HUH?
Employers commonly check Facebook pages of prospective employees. It doesn’t surprise that the same is done for existing employees.
Fascism creeps slowly like a cat in the night.
The most sage advice you can give anyone.
Don’t post anything on the Internet that you don’t want your boss to read.
She must be going through life with a bag over her head. I hear about people getting into trouble at work, school, with the law over facebook postings all the time. If you post material that could even be considered offensive to some, you might get into trouble. How could she be so dumb?
That's true, but her freedom of speech wasn't violated anyhow. She said what she was thinking. She was free to post it. She posted it. Her rights weren't violated, on a number of different counts.
The crucial difference between them is the woman's employer would get heat over their employee's statements. The Democrat will not.
She has the right to speak. Her boss was weak by political correctness that has consumed our people. I hear stuff often from guys at work and her remarks are tame. FB took the easy way out though, leave up death threats to conservatives. And, seems to have their jobs writing for papers. That was their call. FB pleases the government’s political correctness. This is coming from that if you get into the root of the problem of not being able to speak freely.
Private employers looking at your facebook account is not fascism. Gov't doing it and using it as a basis to attack you, jail you, deny your rights, etc. would be fascism. Private employers? Nope.
She was fired from the hospital that I was born in, her statement was harmless and a commonly worded type outburst about something happening states away.
“But she does have freedom of speech on the Facebook.”
“I doubt it.”
Of course she doesn’t have freedom of speech on the Facebook. It’s a privately-owned business, and she agreed to their terms of use when she signed up. Frankly I would have revoked her membership too, for posting a call to commit violence.
People make the same mistake about radio stations , esp. college kids who think they can say anything they want on their college stations, like it’s their own personal first amendment playground. It isn’t.
When I was in college radio, we had to disabuse more than one snot-nosed punk of that erroneous notion, by revoking their air shifts. They didn’t understand that a radio station is a licensed broadcast entity subject to the license holder’s standards and FCC regulations (which are mostly technical).
They went around crying “censorship” instead.
If we had more violence like that, there’d be a lot less gang/criminal/psycho violence to victimize us all.
Not just a threat, a declaration of war.
Well, intent at least. Terroristic threats.
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