Should people be fired or penalized for tweets they make

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Question: The News Media Discussion: Should People Have The Power To Pressure Industries To Withdraw Advertising From Television Shows?

In March 2018, Laura Ingraham, a conservative commentator on Fox News, made fun of Parkland High School shooting survivor David Hogg for being rejected from several colleges in a tweet. Backlash to the tweet was nearly instantaneous, with a large number of advertisers pulling out from her Fox show, The Ingraham Angle. Hogg called for a protest of the advertisers in a tweet to his nearly 700,000 followers. Ingraham apologized, but Hogg rejected her apology, calling it insincere. Shortly after, she took a week of vacation, some allege in response to the backlash and protests, but Fox News said the vacation was planned. In April 2018, another conservative talk show host (Jamie Allman from a St. Louis station) faced intense controversy after he tweeted he wanted to "ram a hot poker up David Hogg's ass." Allman ultimately resigned and his show (The Allman Report) was cancelled after outrage grew and advertisers fled his program. Bill Maher denounced the 'Bully' David Hogg on his HBO show (Real Time) on April 6, 2018 saying that the boycott is a modern way of cutting off free speech. While he said Ingraham is a "deliberately terrible person," she shouldn't face a boycott. Maher faced pushback from his panelists, notably former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who stated that the call for the boycott was an example of Hogg exercising his free speech. These examples raise some interesting points. First, the power people can have by pressuring industries to withdraw advertising. Second, these examples raise important questions about free speech. Should people be fired or penalized for tweets they make, especially about people who put themselves in the public arena?

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