To be clear, I don’t think Gunn’s tweets were funny, though they were clearly jokes — however, firing someone for years-old bad jokes marks just how authoritarian our society has become, and how corporations are the largest arbiters of what we can and can’t say, and are the de facto enforcers of censorship. In this case, unlike with Roseanne Barr, it’s an act of retroactive censorship.

Damn, I am so glad some of the offensive and terrible jokes I made in my teens and twenties are nowhere to be found. I’d be fired from any possible job if some of that crap were unearthed.