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no, it would be because you can't just change the meaning of words to suit your political agenda.
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The courts have ruled that if I act on behest of the police (a part of the gov't) then I in fact, even though a private citizen, become a defacto government agent. Taking this to the present case then, if a company is acting a certain way due to requirements of law and regulation and "consent decrees" they in fact become government agents. Just my feeble logic here.
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a private company is not the government. full stop.
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it is when it is acting at the behest of and as an agent of the gov't.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The PTB beg to differ
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Totally agree.
Jeremy Falcon
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This guy was not arrested so his freedom of speech was not compromised or infringed upon in the slightest. He is now suffering from the consequences of his actions but in the USA we do NOT have the right of freedom from consequences.
Yet. 
modified 8-Aug-17 18:40pm.
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I would argue that the only "consequence" for unwanted, undesirable speech should be more speech directed at the speaker of undesired speech, not loosing one's livelyhood.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Businesses have the freedom to employ whom they choose to (within the constraints of immigration law) and I do not think that should be reduced in any way.
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Rick York wrote: within the constraints of immigration and employment law
FTFY
I agree. Just saying that I don't think the consequence meets the "crime". It's overblown and overdone. I don't think a valid reason to fire someone is because they disagree with the company "culture" or think differently than the "company line". So long as they can do the job, they should be able to express themselves however they see fit.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I agree, but we can't start adding more laws to "fix" this. It just ads more problems to the already overreaching government. But we can call Google stupid idiots for it. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: we can't start adding more laws to "fix" this. It just ads more problems to the already overreaching government.
I agree with the second part of your statemen... but you will be proven wrong with the first one. Einstein told it, human stupidity and universe... you know what I mean
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: we can't start adding more laws to "fix" this
Agree. Too much regulation as it is.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: we can call Google stupid idiots
  
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Pathetic, because reading that memo, he brings up what I think are legitimate points of discussion and consciousness raising. As it stands, all this political correctness we've been seeing over the last 50 years is a double-edged sword -- racism, bias, discrimination: bad. Talking about racism, bias, discrimination has also become "bad" unless you're a graduate of Goddard College (as an example) in which case you're seen as "a radical force for change for a better future" or some such BS when in reality many of the people that pick up these causes are actually suffering from psychological problems.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: actually suffering from psychological problems
Here! Here!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Here! Here!
Marc's view on life -- we all have psychological problems to various degrees.
Marc
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Forsooth!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Anyone who disagrees with my view on any subject is suffering from psychological problems, but not as much as I am suffering from theirs.
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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BillWoodruff wrote: but not as much as I am suffering from theirs.
How true! 
Marc
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Audio can be incorporated automatically without time-consuming manual animation. Another technology that will never, ever be misused
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Federal Circuit stands by 2015 ruling that knocked out Personal Audio’s patent. Feel free to talk at your computer again
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And the crowd goes wild. That's one non-invention patent gone; many more to go.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: one non-invention patent gone; many more to go.
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