A bartender at the popular Swampscott restaurant, Mission on the Bay, was initially fired for publicly sharing comments on social media that he overheard being made by a local Selectman who he believed was being critical of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, the restaurant owner has reversed his decision and hired the bartender back, claiming he was wrong, and actually “proud” of what the bartender accomplished with his message. Furthermore, the Selectman in question, Don Hause, claims the conversation did not happen the way is was told and that it’s “inflammatory and untrue”. Hause has since been banned from Mission on the Bay. Is this an attack on freedom of speech? What about server-client privilege? Even so, is the restaurant in the right to ban an individual based on his personal thoughts or comments?