COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Hoboken Catalogue, Eric Garcetti, Government Speech
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Government employees as speakers and government as employer. You must surrender your first amendment rights for a job. Like when people sign up for the cia, they have to sign a contract that anything they say has to be approved. You have a right to free speech but taking a gov. job, it"s not giving up your rights, it is a benefit, a privilege. If you don"t like it go find another hob. Mcauliffe v. mayor, cxity of new bedford. Cop got fired bc he was doing politics on the side. At the end of the day is the people who own the business who sets the rules. There has to be a balance, bc gov. needs to get its job done. Military: very strict: photos released of prisoners of war society is conflicted bc military needs to do their job whether you like the war or not.