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Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB
wjousts writes "American Medical Response of Connecticut had a policy that barred employees from depicting the company 'in any way' on Facebook or other social media. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that this policy runs afoul of the National Labor Relations Act, which gives employees the right to form unions and prohibits employers from punishing workers for discussing working conditions."
Exactly. The 1st Amendment applies to the government. Not to private relations, one of which is employment.
"Obama sucks ass" is protected speech, in that Obama can't send me to the gulag for saying it. However, if my boss is a stinky hippie from San Francisco who still things Dear Leader walks on water, he can certainly hold that against me and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Corporatism != Free Market
Yes, it is the wealthy parasite class who pays for it.
The only thing that will displace Facebook is something even more addictive, proprietary, privacy-shredding, and generally more despicable. So I, for one, hope you never get your wish.
You're complaining about the pasture the sheep have chosen to graze in. It's not worth giving yourself an ulcer. Sheep do what sheep do. Let 'em. Sheep talk about what they do. It's just sheep talking, Man.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Funny, if you make this same claim about what constitutes censorship, the slashdot hordes will claim ANYTHING is censorship, not just that which comes from the government.
I've lost track of how many times I've said "Apple doesn't censor anything, because they are not the US Government" only to be lectured that censorship isn't limited to the government.
So which is it, slashdot?