utterance

Or means "utterance", not the very "say" as you might intend.

About 5% of the words you speak will be edited on the fly, and not part of the final utterance to be understood.

It's a little like beginning every utterance in English with "it seems" or "Simon says.

Speakers tend to say a lot of "ums", abruptly restart an utterance in progress, talk past the telephone handset, etc.

There's also a pilots union issue, they don't want every offhand utterance, gripes about management, gossip, etc.

It's unfortunate that they chose the wrong channel for that sort of utterance, but frankly the only people "hurt" by what they said were the people that chose to be "hurt" by it.

If the mere utterance of words can drive people to punish fellow beings to any extent, then it is only a matter time before they are stricken with their own gavel

I sympathise with the issue he's trying to draw attention to, but his hysterical over the top utterance doesn't reflect positively on him as a CEO.

Whether a given utterance is protected depends on a variety of factors, but probably the most important one for low-ranking TSA employees is that the speech must be of public concern to be protected.

The only comparative speech which is banned in the US is "fighting words," which must meet the much more strenuous requirement of "those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.

Why do you think that we think that's what happened because the two executives "can't"?I think it happened because both had lawyers looking it over due to the fact both are operating in the heavily regulated space of high-level officers in one of the world's largest publicly traded companies, and it would be suicidally stupid to not have lawyers looking over your every official utterance... and while the words are in the lawyers hands, the PR department might as well have a go too, since it's not a hard guess to think this could go mobile-first, cloud-first... er... public.