Allowing a small number of people complaining on Twitter to silence opposing political views of people through pressuring their employer, is a stain on our culture and we need to find a way to change it.
There is no satisfying solution to stop this because of course we generally want businesses to be capable of responding to public pressure, though we might not always agree with the outrage or like the people it comes from.
Do we?
The public pressure generally comes from a small but very motivated minority, that rarely reflects the opinions of the broader population.
I have started seeing people that camp out in these echo chambers as uncompassionate, immoral and fundamentally dangerous people. Dangerous in the sense that they’re toxic for a peaceful democracy.
The suppression is coming from "moderate" liberals. They're the ones who captured the ACLU when they suddenly got lots of money and grew and became the anti-Trump league. I'm not a Trumper, but he's much less of a threat to civil liberties than those moderate liberals.
In the same way the ACLU has flipped, perceptions of a simple left/right divide need to change. Old labels don't make sense.
Agree 100%. This is a bipartisan issue and our discourse is being dictated more and more by the political fringes.