Reply #220: That is not the function or scope of

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the First Amendment. I'd love to see the precedent that says otherwise. I am not required to hang out with the Ku Klux Klan, and I am fully within my rights to report a teacher's Klan activities to a school principle if i feel that they may enter the classroom, and especially if I have a published record of that teacher planning to distribute Klan material in a classroom. There is no infringement on the right of free speech if that teacher is reprimanded, since the violation has to do with the teacher's office or function, and not his or her capacity to speak generally. The same applies here. Neither the report nor the firing infringe on misanthrope's right to free speech. They both concern misanthrope's office as an announcer and programmer. Similarly, I can be fired for playing hip hop at a soft rock station, even though that hip hop could be considered expression broadly speaking. The first amendment doesn't protect speech from private consequences, but from government sanction.