Mind you, if somebody wants to advocate for European-style “digital privacy” laws where governments and businesses can’t go digging around in all our online activities whenever they want, I’m all for that (and I support the ACLU’s efforts in that direction).
But that’s not the same thing as people expecting never to see any consequences from their voluntary and knowingly public social-media activities conducted under their own identities. Any not-absolutely-cretinous user of social media is fully aware that they’re putting their comments and photos and what-not out on a public platform to be potentially shared with the whole world.
That voluntarily shared information is part of an individual’s public persona on the internet. Demanding that everybody should just ignore the aspects of your public persona that they find problematic is not at all the same thing as not wanting the world to see your private emails or browser history or online purchases.
And I’ll also point out that we shouldn’t just gloss over the other false equivalence Sam_Stone’s trying to draw here, between “conservative views” and “liberal views”. To quote a previous well-made point:
People on the left aren’t saying that we should shun or ban law-abiding rational people who merely have different views from ours on how best to run our democracy. We’re saying that we’re okay with shunning and banning non-law-abiding, non-rational people who are advocating violent destruction of our democracy.