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DC cancels Red Hood. Writer Has 'No Regrets' Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Despite Firing
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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Daily Mail's actual headline (according to her via her Bluesky account)
Bloodthirsty trans author mocks Charlie Kirk's looks after she was fired by prestigious publisher for joking about his murder
Freedom of speech is dead in the USA
The first amendment protects citizen speech from the government. It does not protect speech from consequences or actions by private individuals or companies. So, as much as I hate it, DC did not impede the author's freedom of speech and they were full within their rights to fire the author and cancel the comic. It is also my right to make it a point to not buy DC comics and to publicly bash their decision on every public forum I have access to.
I dunno. Isn't being fired for your speech as an individual outside of work the same as being fired for being gay or some religion or whatever? Seems like if you can lose your job over something then you don't actually have a legal right to it.
The first amendment protects citizen speech from the government. It does not protect speech from consequences or actions by private individuals or companies.
And free speech does not begin and end at the first amendment. A company can violate your ability to speak freely without also violating your first amendment rights.
Freedom of speech is infact dead. When the government and corporations are in bed with each other, that's a convenient way to separate actions. And as we've seen in so many other ways, the government loves to use corporations to do the things that they "aren't allowed" to do, because tech moves at light speed compared to laws
Man I hate that things I used to love became so mainstream.