# New-ish "free speech" app, Parler **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ish-free-speech-app-parler/925109 "2020-11-09T03:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 359
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ish-free-speech-app-parler/925109/359 "2021-01-29T02:04:16Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Maybe it’s time to rethink this brave new world where people can be fired for their political beliefs? It’s called [“the market’s power to regulate companies who step out of the mainstream of moral or social views”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-ceo-pays-the-price-for-not-being-in-favor-of-gay-marriage/685359/73), Sam. You may have heard of some of the people who claim to be in favor of that. Like the guy in that linked post from 2014, who opined > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > […] how would you feel if, say, Ford hired an ex-Chrysler guy, and it turned out that Ford’s customers were so anti-Chrysler that they started kicking up a ruckus? Would Ford be within their rights to tell the guy, “Sorry, but it turns out our customers don’t like you. You’ve gotta go.”? > > The answer is yes. Those of us who believe in the market’s power to regulate companies who step out of the mainstream of moral or social views as an alternative to regulation shouldn’t complain when the market works exactly as we say it will. So if the customers of Mozilla are stongly pro-SSM, the company has every right, and possibly a fiduciary duty, to not hire an anti-SSM CEO. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ish-free-speech-app-parler/925109)._