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by qzjxk 278 days ago
People have been fired from their jobs for refusing to refer to trans-identifying males as if they are women. Some have even been taken to court over it. This is quite clearly a threat to free speech.
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> People have been fired from their jobs

This is a good point because a business choosing not to employ somebody is the exact same thing as the government mandating that a private company not employ somebody. Similarly, gummy bears and grizzly bears are the same thing: bears

These are different types of attacks on free speech but it comes from the same underlying intolerance of others' rights to free expression.
These are different types of attacks on free speech the same way stubbed toes and decapitations are different types of injuries.

The federal government quelling speech is a very different thing than facing consequences for your speech in a private relationship.

I agree! The definition of an attack on free speech is anything that happens that I don’t like. For example Netflix raising their prices is an attack on free speech. People that have loud conversations on speakerphone in public are attacking free speech. When I’m at a picnic and a wasp lands on my sandwich? That’s not just an attack on free speech, that’s cancel culture. The wasp (government) is literally cancelling me exercising (eating) free speech (my sandwich)
Do you talk this sarcastically to people in real life? It's quite off-putting and gets in the way of conversation.
>It's quite off-putting

I don’t appreciate this attack on my freedom of expression. “Freedom of speech” means saying whatever I want and I am free from anybody forming any negative opinions about me or what I said. Any even perceived undesired consequence for how I express myself is an assault on my first amendment rights

No thanks.