• Universal Monk@lonestarlemmy.mooo.comOP
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    9 hours ago

    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 (he/him)
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      51 minutes 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.