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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 7 months ago by UniversalMonk@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com to c/conservative@lemm.ee

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

actually freedom of speech means you're not punished by the government for saying things the government doesn't like, eg. criticizing the government.

[–] UniversalMonk@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As in punished by going to jail. You won't be thrown in jail for calling your boss an asshole (or even a "jerk")--thanks to free speech. But you can def get fired for calling your boss an asshole or a jerk.

And plenty of people do.

If it were as cut-and-dry as you say, then people wouldn't be fired for posting shit on facebook, even in an unofficial capacity. And that has happened under BOTH political parties.

I'm not arguing fair or not fair. I'm just saying how it's interpreted by our legal system.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

i wasn't arguing against that. i was arguing: you can go to prison for saying something (eg. betrayal of state secrets), but not for things like critisizing the government. this is imporrant for democracy.