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People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk (text.npr.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/Technology@programming.dev

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Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer's assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because definitions lead to laws. Those laws affect the interactions you have on the internet. The current interaction you are having would be bound by laws in the UK, Nepal, the United States and more if forums were classified as social media. Not only that, but with the definitions posted elsewhere in this thread it would literally regulate Amazon under social media as well. Do you think that things that aren’t social media should be regulated as them just by an arbitrary naming convention?

Using social media to mean “the Internet” just means you lose your rights without noticing.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most laws define their words, and they're going to define them however they want, and they will include forums as social media. Laws are written to have an effect, usually to regulate communication between people. That's what social media facilitates