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Subject: Re: OT: Richard Mathew Stallman
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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:

> On 9/27/19 12:22 PM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>
>> [..regarding Richard Stallman's recent departure from MIT and FSF..]
>>
>> But this sacking is concerning.  If freedom of speech is to mean anything,
>> people must be able to keep their jobs for expressing their opinions
>> on matters not directly related to their employment.
>
> Without the ability to ACT on your beliefs, the freedom of speech means
> little.  And all freedoms are limited by how they interact with other
> freedoms.  The right of Freedom of Speech says that the Government is
> restricted in its manner of imposing restrictions on speech.  It does not
> say that one is immune to natural consequences arising through the
> interactions of private individuals.  Organizations are collections of
> individuals, and those individuals still have their rights of action.

I disagree with much of what you say here.  Since the general
subject doesn't fit in comp.lang.c, I will just leave it at
that.