It’s fine. You just have to make sure you never say anything that could ever possibly be misinterpreted or used against you by anyone ever for the rest of your or your children’s lives. How hard could that be?
That's the even scarier part. There was a NASCAR driver a couple of years ago who lost his sponsorship because of something his father said before the driver was even born.
The way capitalism is supposed to work is that consumers (the capitalist synonym for “people”) avoid companies they don't like for whatever reason. The problem is this assumes consumers are reasonable.
The sponsor has little to gain by doing the ethically correct but publicly outrageous thing and standing by the innocent person, because there are more people in the angry mob than there are who would reward the sponsor for their sound ethics.
“Consumer” isn't a synonym for people in capitalism, it's an economic role that all people assume in capitalism, but not in all interactions. (“Laborer” and “capitalist” are similar, though slightly less universal, roles; because they are less universal, the degree to which one tends to assume them also define economic classes in capitalism.)
In case anyone was curious, this appears to be referring to Conor Daly, as described in the following article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/sports/autoracing/conor-d...
- Cardinal Richelieu (supposedly)
I do three things that make it pretty easy: I avoid nearly all social media in the first place; when I do interact online (such as here), I always use a pseudonym; and if any company or governmental body asks for my social media credentials, I tell them I don't have any (which happens to be 99% true).
a) I'm wrong and this is literal b) The crowd is wrong