This is the very reason why I have made it my personal crusade to write to and lobby elected officials to get Federal legislation passed to prevent employers from firing anyone for anything that they post on social media or firing anyone who ends up on social media , or any media through no fault of their own, such as in this situation and many others. I would want to see such federal legislation include the prevention of any employer from so much as looking at the social media accounts of any of their employees or prospective employees, and preventing employers from terminating any employees for any reason having to do with social media or videos of them posted or aired anywhere. I would love to see devastating fines imposed on these companies who break this law.
Are there any other regulations that you want the federal government to impose on private businesses?
I wouldn’t want to hire, and would fire, someone who was posting pro Antifa or ISIS stuff.
There hasn’t been such a thing as ‘privacy’ since the mid 1980’s.
“Freedom of speech” *ONLY* refers to laws made by Congress.
The only protections for social media I could ever see being made law would be related to protections that already exist- sex, religion, race, etc.
I would hope my local police department would NOT hire someone with social media posts about their support for NAZIs, or La Raza.
Embarrassing the company in public has always been a fireable offense. In this modern world that’s easier to do than ever because you can always be linked to the company. Nobody will ever pass the regulation you want. And they shouldn’t. It’s a bad idea.