>That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.

Care to rephrase that hombre?

Everyone has free speech rights. No exceptions. If you're pissy enough to fire someone over a disagreement like that, that's one thing, and highly unprofessional to boot as long as they are still doing their job.

I don't have to agree with you as an employee. And I have the right to voice my disagreement. They should thank him though. They get their Unemployment a shot at a less toxic workplace, and hopefully they've been networking enough to catalyze resistance vs. an evident cult of personality.

Plenty of exceptions, to wit: not in the workplace, and certainly not using your employer's communications infrastructure, as was the case here.