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Originally Posted by Fionn mac Cumh
Free speech only protects you from govt actions not your employer.
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So employers are okay to take our private phone conversations and use them to fire us? You're kidding, right? I believe what you mean is because Sterling had a contract with the NBA, and because in the contract there is likely language which governs how the owners are expected to represent their team...that is the small ledge the NBA is standing on to ban Sterling for life and try to force him to sell the team.
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Originally Posted by Fionn mac Cumh
Also how you are in your private is how you really are. But I guess its OK to be a closet racist. Just don't let it become public.
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I agree. It's not okay to be racist, in the closet or out. I've already spoken against what he said; however, I do believe that private conversations should be left private. It's ridiculous that not only do people not have any privacy because of big brother, but people like Sterling have to worry about being set up and recorded.
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Originally Posted by Fionn mac Cumh
This isn't the legal system here. We can't just deem the conversation emissable. He said what he said and we all heard it.
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Yes, but why did he say what he said? Did the Commish not hear what I and many others heard -- that this hooker was steering the conversation and baiting him into saying these things? Listen to the audio. He's not doing a Mel Gibson-style rant. He's answering questions and responding to what she's saying.
Again, what he said is despicable. But would he have said any of that to her on that phone call without her driving the conversation the way she did?
I don't think so.