In all honesty, I wasn't considering the first amendment - would its protections even apply to the typical case, EG, a private employer electing to fire an employee over their conduct? I'm in the dark there, being only Burgerland-adjacent, and unfortunately lazy on US constitutional law, among many other things.
Sounds more like a case for wrongful dismissal, social media clauses having unsurprisingly become a thing.
Tangentially, this is why Frankie Boyle's apparent recommendation that one Dankula escape prosecution via "freedom of speech" perplexed me - the UK has no such provision, and a raft of hate speech legislation to land offenders in the pokey, besides (I say without meaning to sound conspiratorial - I myself benefiting greatly in theory
unless DAY OF TEH ROPE happens, then I'd better fuck off
)
I'm more interested in good ol' dollaroos and poundfordshires. On my side of the pond, there is
Andrew Norfolk, a journalist instrumental to publicising the Rotherham child grooming scandal. By his telling, he was loathe to report, worrying he'd be doing a service for the extreme right. Different scenario entirely, imo, even if the outcome - a blanket stifling of important speech, as if it were mere demagoguery - is unfortunately similar.
In the realm of filthy lucre, I'm uneasily reminded of one Nick Cannon, who has apparently been reinstated by Viacom - after getting PWNed for anti-semitic speech, on his fractally misnamed
"Cannon's Class" (literally anti-semitic, as in: "Those Conniving Jews Stole Our Shit With Tricks"). He also said a whole bunch of other racist bullshit (literally racist, as in: "skin melanin content is inversely proportional to rape/murder tendency"). And other Hotep gibberish, as the ruefully titled Professor Griff nodded sagely, like a donkey. But from headlines, you wouldn't know the latter bits. Happily for Nick, he has apologised for the stuff that got him fired! Hooray! P-principle? Wazzat?
Not meaning to cast Mr. Robinson's lot in with the Hoteps and their moronic poster boy Mr. Cannon. Fucking hell, I should say - not meaning to equate criticism of Israel/US policies thereon with anti-scientific racist swill. I can't ignore that both's speech has provoked functionally identical outcomes, however. Maybe a worse one, in Robinson's case - he certainly sounds like he's hurting more than Cannon ever was. So I'm happy putting them under the same shitposty lens.
I have observed with much schadenfreude the plight of Woke Potter Fans - NOBODY is getting at Ms. Rowling's cash! The cancel process is ineffective on those with such invincible reserves.
IT CANT DO SHIT Picture a mighty backhoe, purloined of its sparkplugs. Or perhaps the backhoe has some uncanny survival instinct, and knows its metal hide would be rent like so much cardboard, should it approach - as Rowling replies by announcing her own shitposting, I mean,
microblogging platform, publishing house, AND gamedev studio, like you or I might order a pack of bananas!
If you would take a stand against this UPPITY HO, I would suggest
sailing teh briney deeps instead!
But you'd better clam up tight, after - word of mouf is a potent marketing force, and normies tend to fork over cash for shit they like! Your pirated,
wizardly antics might unearth
entire new stratums of income for the obscenely-monied cow - especially if you can write a words worth one fuck! Think of TEH CHILDREN of these new fans, even. Entire generations lining the Rowling estate! Christ, it's a nightmare!