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[dexeron.livejournal.com]

I feel it's important we clear this up. pic.twitter.com/bo7o6DFIY7

— Elder Wombat UrsulaV (@UrsulaV) February 11, 2014

(and on a non-political note, it turned into a huge running honey-badger thing:)

http://storify.com/mmastertheone/ursulav-and-mcahogarth-play-with-honey-badgers

Comments

[i.livejournal.com]

Why is the one on the left able to trample your first amendment rights?
Why is the one on the right unable to?
This makes zero sense.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Because the First Amendment only applies to acts of the US government.

[i.livejournal.com]

Which would mean that the Government is restricted from trampling on your rights, while the private sector is not.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

Ideally the governmental protections of free speech override anything an employer or other private organization in a position of authority over you can demand. In real life it is, of course, not so simple, but ideally only the government could really trample such rights.

The joke is that private organizations can just as easily trample rights as the government, but the lack of any real distinction between de jure oppression and de facto oppression is lost on those who see the government as irredeemably evil and corporations as incorruptibly good.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Its rather difficult to speak with your face ripped off.

[compost75.livejournal.com]

because you do not POSSESS the right of free speech in the corporate world.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Yes. I have be disabused of this illusion.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you linked the storify, I've seen these floating around but I haven't seen the Morally Ambiguous Honey Badger bit.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Bravo!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I am pleased this exists.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

ps: ursulav