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> A private company can suppress free speech; it can perform searches and seizures on its grounds; it can profile and discriminate and have pay inequality. But it cannot claim any moral high ground.

I don't think any company has ever tried to make such a silly claim. If they fire someone, it will usually be because that employee broke the terms of their employment contract which nobody forced them to sign in the first place.



Right. Employee agreements that suppress free speech are kind of the subject of this thread.


That's the whole point: employee agreements do not suppress free speech. It's legal nonsense to claim that they do.


If you define free speech as 'that part of the American value that is embodied in a Constitutional amendment' and take it no further. Be fair.




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