An attack on free speech anywhere is an attack on free speech everywhere.
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Free speech has nothing to do with workplace conduct.
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The workplace in question caved to pressure from the head of state of the country to stop the protest. While I don't deny the NFL has the right to choose this, it is definitely concerning when the government is involved in suppression of protest.
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No they didn’t. They caved to the decline in revenue. It’s just business.
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Would have been way better for them to day that. Totally appropriate, too. They chose to feign nationalism.
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I desperately want to read this but I’ve reached my quota of NYT articles for the month, damn it! I can’t subscribe to all the newspapers.

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My hero!!!! Thank you!
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You can always try on a different browser or device...

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Thank you! I will do that next time.
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Usually agree with you Sam but I do believe you're wrong on this one. Players should absolutely be allowed to protest but not on company time and still keep their job/ be paid. The company makes the decision based on what is good for their revenue and they get to make the rules.
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Players are not kneeling when they're supposed to be working . You think they would be more productive if they stood for those 2 minutes?
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When in uniform, they are embassadors for the team's brand. If the employer does not want their brand associated with a certain political stance they are well within their rights to reprimand the players, compelling them to conform would also be bad, but they allow abstaining.
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Same true of university? Deplatforming OK if the uni doesn’t want their brand associated with a certain political stance?
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More of a complex issue, universities are imo supposed to be a place of free thinking, where ideas are developed and challenged. I feel that people are paying to watch sports not engage ideas wrt the nfl.
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universities have a right to restrict speech of faculty members/staff under their employment but I believe that exercising that right would be a bad thing to do usually and would be disingenuous, and detrimental to the product they provide students.
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Like I've said in several threads now I think a more apt comparison would be requiring employees of a restaurant like McDonald's to abstain from wearing a make America great again hat.
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