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by dgaaaaaaaaaa 1522 days ago
The same reason most of us can't address customers and colleagues as idiots.

Employers fire employees who speak offensively even outside of work. Free speech doesn't mean speech without consequences.

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The government can't punish people for exercising their free speech rights. That's exactly what the court ruled, and exactly why he got this big payday. The "consequences" you're referring to might be social ostracization or something like that.
Must be the first time courts have made the wrong decision then