Freedom of speech
Nov. 22nd, 2020 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mprotsenkohttps://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/business/voice-of-america-violated-journalists-rights/index.html
Really? Firing government workers for insufficiently praising the Supreme Leader? In 21st century America?
I am shocked by two things - first, by the very fact that this shit happened. Second, by silence of the people who were outraged by things like "oh, he was fired from a private company after making a racist gesture" (and by other "leftist attacks on freedom of speech", however small or even imaginary they are).
In a 76-page ruling, US District Judge Beryl Howell found that Michael Pack, CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, and his team violated the First Amendment rights of its journalists. She also found that Pack and his team showed an "extensive pattern of penalizing those USAGM and network employees whom defendants regard as insufficiently supportive of President Trump."
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Shortly after Pack took the helm of the agency in June, VOA's top officials resigned en masse. Later that month, Pack fired the heads of four organizations overseen by the agency, in what was called the "Wednesday night massacre."
Really? Firing government workers for insufficiently praising the Supreme Leader? In 21st century America?
I am shocked by two things - first, by the very fact that this shit happened. Second, by silence of the people who were outraged by things like "oh, he was fired from a private company after making a racist gesture" (and by other "leftist attacks on freedom of speech", however small or even imaginary they are).
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Date: 2020-11-22 11:21 pm (UTC)Возмущение уровня "подгорает" всё-таки требует ситуации "your opponent is arguing in good faith" (я лично таких сценариев со стороны коричневых и им сочувствующих давным-давно не наблюдаю).