How free speech can get you fired

Platapus · 04-14-12, 07:47 AM

Lemme ask this.

When Neal bans someone from his website, is that an infringement on that person's First Amendment rights? Is Neal breaking constitutional law?

Of course not.

This is a privately owned website and Neal can ban anyone he chooses for no reason than he chooses to do so. I have no First Amendment rights on a privately owned website.

Why would this be any different than being fired from a private company?

Now, depending on the law, there may be isolated circumstances where people are protected from being fired for saying stuff. But that protection comes from another law/regulation and not from the First Amendment.

04-14-12, 07:47 AM	#24
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,379 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Lemme ask this. When Neal bans someone from his website, is that an infringement on that person's First Amendment rights? Is Neal breaking constitutional law? Of course not. This is a privately owned website and Neal can ban anyone he chooses for no reason than he chooses to do so. I have no First Amendment rights on a privately owned website. Why would this be any different than being fired from a private company? Now, depending on the law, there may be isolated circumstances where people are protected from being fired for saying stuff. But that protection comes from another law/regulation and not from the First Amendment. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.