Google blogger: 'I was terminated'
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WayneLigon
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Turanil said:
It's a contraction of 'web log'. Just type 'blog' into a search engine and I'm sure you'll come up with thousands of examples. Livejournal is the one I use, so some remote friends and such can see what's up.
I think that it's highly suspect if the company fires you for ranting on your log unless you (1) use your real name (2) use other people's real names (3) name the company by name. If you do those things that that can be seen as invasion of privacy for the people you name, as well as blackening the company's good name in a public forum.
If you don't do any of those things (and don't do it on company time using company resources) I don't see the company firing you. They should be asking you why your morale is so low. Of course, the fact that they've found the thing in the first place means you've blabbed to the wrong person about what you're doing, assuming you've done none of the things listed above (ie, they cannot have found out about you from a simple web search).
Some of them are pretty fascinating, especially ones that have details of professions that are not mine. I find that interesting for some reason. WaiterRant is pretty cool. True Porn Clerk Stories (actually 95% work safe) was just about the best I've seen.
EricNoah
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Umbran said:
Well, surely a matter of semantics, but ... I always thought that we have these inalienable rights (life, liberty, happiness, free speech, religious freedom, etc. etc.), and that the government's role is to protect those rights.
As someone else noted, that doesn't mean the government will shield you from the consequences of expressing yourself, necessarily.
tarchon
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Aside from boards filled with threads about members' cats' hemorrhoid problems? Blogs have just lent more order to an old phenomenon, only they've given up all pretense of having a topic.fusangite said:
To correct an earlier statement, blogs are not always publically accessible. Most of them have layers of access control, and very few bloggers have everything publically available.
EricNoah said:
Yep. But it isn't just semantics. Before we can talk about how our rights have been infringed upon, we must first recognize what they are. You've run earlier versions of this site. You know darned well that censorship is allowed - that means that there's no real right of free speech here, because Morrus (and you, in your time) are not the government.
So, in a sense, no infringement on the right of free speech occurred in this case. The only similar right we can easily point to is not to overall free speech, but instead to a right of freedom from government interference in speech.
Blogger Joe Gandleman of The Moderate Voice had this to say on the matter over at Dean's World.
I think it would be a good idea to remember these words:
I think it would be a good idea to remember these words:
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