Reply #237: That's your first mistake

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Capitalism was never freedom. Even Adam Smith knew that. Capitalism tends toward fascism in principle and necessarily. There is no free capitalism. That is the fundamental struggle of our times, and the fundamental struggle against capitalism. Our "rights" assume functions of power lodged in government. They have little or no mechanisms for dealing with a situation in which power is vested primarliy in private organizations.

That said, the employer in this matter made no active attempt to surveil misanthrope, so there goes points 1, 2 and 3. Misanthrope made a public statement about the internal operations of the station, and solicited publicly ways to undermine those internal operations. That is the fundamental difference.