According to this article by Aemon Malone at Digital Trends social media may now have a precedent as free speech.
The article is about a court case involving an employee that was fired for posting derogatory comments about her boss on her Facebook wall. Luckily, she had the National Labor Relations Board in her corner of the courtroom. The NLRB is an independent federal agency that was created to protect the rights of employees from abusive management practices.
I wouldn’t exactly say this protects employees from posts about binge drinking at 3 a.m. on a work night or tweets about bringing cannabis brownies in for the team meeting, but it does say something about the government’s level of respect for social media. As far as the more scandalous updates go, maybe you should save them for a priest or the nearest equivalent.
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