Yeah this is a good example of a free speech violation, that person paid for the billboard, the company signed a contract with the professor, they should honor their agreement if they didn't want to do business with the guy no one was forcing them. However after a contract was signed and money changed hands they are required to honor the agreement. The thing is they were looking at potential lost revenue so they decided it would be cheaper to not honor the agreement and deal with the consequences of that and while I don't agree and I think in the end it'll cost them more in reputation damage. This is the area where free speech gets really hard to define, do those companies that were threatening them have the right to threaten them due to speech they allowed? I don't know but what I do know is these are the types of things that haven't really been hashed out and they should be.
Ditto.
They are a private company that is free to take down or put up what they want though right? I don't know what was in the contract but it should cover this. As an aside fuck that liberal shitheel professor and his group. They want to cause drama
Isn’t that a limit on speech? I’ve really been considering this side of the argument since jones was deplatformed, I haven’t come to a conclusion yet.
I don't think so as it is a private company. I as a private citizen am free to Express my views but am I covered by the first when I use/pay a company to shout my message at the world? I shouldn't be.
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