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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
People need to stop calling this a 'Free Speech' issue.
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While this is technically true as Cherry was employed by SN and as such is not being directly punished by the Canadian government for his speech -- it was on a show produced in partnership with a government-funded entity (CBC). Imagine it was CBC doing the firing...
Just because it is legal doesn't make it right. And what do you think the impact will be for punishing a public figure for making an insensitive observation? Are all insensitive observations expressed aloud fireable offenses? Is that the standard we want to set? Because Cherry is only the latest in a long line of standard setting in this direction.
There's a term for this:
the chilling effect.