But they're not really speaking up for these people - they're an offhand comment in the broader point which is the chilling risk of these powerful individuals not having the platform that they currently enjoy
The vast majority of people who are fired for their beliefs and attitudes are not high-profile writers on twitter, they are minorities who are not well-protected by legislation. The idea that "silencing" is a major concern makes no sense whatsoever in context
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The US only just - in 2020! - made it illegal to fire people for being transgender. But the horrors of a few people being fired unfairly for social media faux pas has prompted such widespread outrage among these powerful writers that they decided to get together and be angry
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And more broadly, the non-Shor examples cited in the letter could quite easily be described not as "chilling silencing" but as "perfectly foreseeable consequences of awful public opinions"
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