Companies CANNOT Help Tackle Internet Trolls

I was scanning the web last night and I came across a column by Rex Huppke, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. The title of the column was "Companies Can Help Tackle Internet Trolls". The author advocates that a person's free speech doesn't protect from being terminated for a job for comments that venture away from accepted politically correct tone. 

Huppke makes some examples.

The article can me read in whole here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/careers/ct-huppke-work-advice-0207-biz-20160203-column.html

The jest of the column is that this author Huppke believes that companies have the right to terminate an employee if it is discovered that this person is making comments that could besmirch the reputation of a said company.

Questions for Huppke, how do you know nowadays what offends a specific person or a specific group of people? Why are women the only ones in society and workplace who can be called disparaging names? Do you think limiting speech on any level is opening a Pandora's Box that will lead to other forms of "Staziesque" oppression?

No, this author doesn't see it!

It seems like Huppke is more interested in writing a politically correct narrative than being a man and dealing with people who may troll him and make "not-so-nice" comments.

Cry me a river, Huppke!

This is the problem we have today in mainstream journalism. You have writers who advocate things such as that. If someone is making physical threats to a person then I feel it should be investigated and dealt with. However, if someone hurls insults at you or says things you may not like it shouldn't equate into calling in the HR brown dress brigade.

Oops, I wasn't politically correct. I guess my place of employment is going to get a call about how I am besmirching their reputation by being honest.

People should be allowed to troll away. Insults are good! It means that we are living in a free society. Look back forty or so years and you'd see a landscape on television of plenty of shows that were based on insulting behavior.

I don't think Archie Bunker would last five minutes in this oppressive society.

I think Archie Bunker would be out of work.

I think Archie Bunker would not be able to be a bigot.

It's a shame because what the world really needs now are more Archie Bunker's and less Michael Stivic's.

Huppke, what do you think about that?