Free Speech Is Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It.

Firing For Speech Becomes Easier. I was struck by the title of this article, because it immediately called to mind the slippery slope analogy. Speech is being strangled, little by little, and we are frogs in a pot of water. The temperature is rising one degree at a time. This NLRB ruling, by a Trump appointed Board, holding that an employee can be fired for "derogatory" speech, is another step in the wrong direction. Some current examples from the post: A Black security guard was fired (and later rehired) for using a racial slur to tell a student not to use the same racial slur. A Starbucks employee who called the company out on its labor practices was fired for "racially insensitive" comments. Former Google engineer James Damore was fired over criticism of the company's diversity problem, which the NLRB later deemed justified. Facebook and Google can censor what you say on social media. Local governments can expand the police power to regulate just about anything. This problem crosses political lines, so it really is about power. If I can regulate what you say, and when you say it, I can control your behavior. If I can control your behavior, I can control everything. The cancel culture is a symptom of this disease. Stand up to it before it is too late.