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The point they’re challenging, that I made, is that knowing employment law will protect your job when protesting. Your rights as an American do not supersede company policy in employment law. I’m just trying to prevent other people from losing their jobs due to misinformation giving them the impression that the Constitution will protect them from termination or loss of unemployment benefits.
That's the mistake you've been making that I pointed out: they were never challenging the fact that knowing employment law will protect your job when protesting. They were challenging a conflation of the law with company policy.
No one in this discussion thinks the Constitution will protect them from termination when the company has employment law on their side, they're insisting against (what seemed to be your) assertions that acting against company policy was a matter of criminal law.
E: They said "It is [...] legal to voice political opinions, even on company time, even on company platforms, and it is also legal for the company to fire the people doing so." And you replied "That’s the misinformation that caused these people their jobs. Stop spreading it. You’re wrong, and dangerously misinforming others about US laws. You cannot voice political opinions at work if the company has a policy against the practice." They weren't spreading misinformation, man. You, however, are using words like "you cannot" about company policy, like a bootlicker.