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Woman fired for this Facebook post about Ferguson
HLNTV ^ | 8/22/14 | Jonathan Anker

Posted on 08/22/2014 2:57:52 PM PDT by Oliviaforever

A woman is out of a job today because of a violent Facebook post she made about the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.

"The police need to just start mowing them down with machine guns, purge them," she wrote, apparently in reference to the people protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown.

But she does have freedom of speech on the Facebook


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To: Monty22002

Facebook is in bed with Obama deeply -my /your government.


21 posted on 08/22/2014 3:15:52 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Oliviaforever

People put way too much personal stuff on Facebook. It’s the Internet folks, and once you put it out there you can’t get it back.


22 posted on 08/22/2014 3:15:57 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Oliviaforever
But she has freedom of speech.

Nope. Not the issue here. The First Amendment prevents government from telling you what or what not to say -- this isn't government, this is an employer. Different ball game. Employers can fire employees for any reason or no reason, unless a contract or local law says otherwise.

23 posted on 08/22/2014 3:16:20 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: steve86

In the 1968 riots in Chicago, the old Mayor Daley gave instructions to shoot to kill anyone throwing a Molotov cocktail. No questions asked, just kill him.


24 posted on 08/22/2014 3:17:39 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regret.s - but it may be too late.)
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To: colorado tanker
People put way too much personal stuff on Facebook. It’s the Internet folks, and once you put it out there you can’t get it back.

What happens on the internet stays on the internet.

25 posted on 08/22/2014 3:18:08 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: forgotten man

I am like that, too. Everyone wants to be known and to have friends :), I guess.


26 posted on 08/22/2014 3:18:20 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: colorado tanker
People put way too much personal stuff on Facebook. It’s the Internet folks, and once you put it out there you can’t get it back.

Not just Facebook. Any online forum. Including this one.

27 posted on 08/22/2014 3:19:06 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Oliviaforever
But she does have freedom of speech on the Facebook

HUH?

28 posted on 08/22/2014 3:19:32 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Employers commonly check Facebook pages of prospective employees. It doesn’t surprise that the same is done for existing employees.

Fascism creeps slowly like a cat in the night.


29 posted on 08/22/2014 3:20:06 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: colorado tanker

The most sage advice you can give anyone.

Don’t post anything on the Internet that you don’t want your boss to read.


30 posted on 08/22/2014 3:21:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oliviaforever
The "protesters" (read looters)should be warned to go to their homes first, then shot if they fail to disperse; otherwise she had the right idea. (it is called "The Riot Act.")
31 posted on 08/22/2014 3:21:24 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Oliviaforever

She must be going through life with a bag over her head. I hear about people getting into trouble at work, school, with the law over facebook postings all the time. If you post material that could even be considered offensive to some, you might get into trouble. How could she be so dumb?


32 posted on 08/22/2014 3:24:10 PM PDT by Essie
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To: Alter Kaker
Nope. Not the issue here. The First Amendment prevents government from telling you what or what not to say -- this isn't government, this is an employer. Different ball game. Employers can fire employees for any reason or no reason, unless a contract or local law says otherwise.

That's true, but her freedom of speech wasn't violated anyhow. She said what she was thinking. She was free to post it. She posted it. Her rights weren't violated, on a number of different counts.

33 posted on 08/22/2014 3:24:38 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
So posting that on facebook is wrong, yet a Democrat in Missouri went on Megyn Kelly’s show last night and said that if Wilson isn’t prosecuted that the riots we have seen til now will look like a picnic, well isn’t that a threat?

The crucial difference between them is the woman's employer would get heat over their employee's statements. The Democrat will not.

34 posted on 08/22/2014 3:26:09 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Alter Kaker

She has the right to speak. Her boss was weak by political correctness that has consumed our people. I hear stuff often from guys at work and her remarks are tame. FB took the easy way out though, leave up death threats to conservatives. And, seems to have their jobs writing for papers. That was their call. FB pleases the government’s political correctness. This is coming from that if you get into the root of the problem of not being able to speak freely.


35 posted on 08/22/2014 3:26:10 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: neocon1984
Fascism creeps slowly like a cat in the night.

Private employers looking at your facebook account is not fascism. Gov't doing it and using it as a basis to attack you, jail you, deny your rights, etc. would be fascism. Private employers? Nope.

36 posted on 08/22/2014 3:26:20 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: Oliviaforever

She was fired from the hospital that I was born in, her statement was harmless and a commonly worded type outburst about something happening states away.


37 posted on 08/22/2014 3:26:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: BilLies

“But she does have freedom of speech on the Facebook.”
“I doubt it.”

Of course she doesn’t have freedom of speech on the Facebook. It’s a privately-owned business, and she agreed to their terms of use when she signed up. Frankly I would have revoked her membership too, for posting a call to commit violence.

People make the same mistake about radio stations , esp. college kids who think they can say anything they want on their college stations, like it’s their own personal first amendment playground. It isn’t.

When I was in college radio, we had to disabuse more than one snot-nosed punk of that erroneous notion, by revoking their air shifts. They didn’t understand that a radio station is a licensed broadcast entity subject to the license holder’s standards and FCC regulations (which are mostly technical).

They went around crying “censorship” instead.


38 posted on 08/22/2014 3:31:58 PM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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To: Oliviaforever

If we had more violence like that, there’d be a lot less gang/criminal/psycho violence to victimize us all.


39 posted on 08/22/2014 3:33:27 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Not just a threat, a declaration of war.

Well, intent at least. Terroristic threats.


40 posted on 08/22/2014 3:34:13 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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