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Say you are an active supporter of a candidate for office and blog about that. Your prospective employer notes this and doesn't offer you the job or promotion owing to it. Get the point? Government can not allow that. This article is dangerous.

Stop it with these kind of articles. They are written by wrong doers who see that their ways are not supportable in the read write world of Web 2.0. Those who like the old days where only legals posted, wrote letters or spoke out and the good citizens hid in silence.

You do not give up rights of citizenship (including speech) when you join the work force. And governments do come down on employers that subjugate the citizenry. Now some one might pay you not to speak but that is another matter.

We in the US at least are free to entertain ourselves on the Web in what ever manner we want to "act" out and prospective employers that base decisions on this act should be shredding evidence of this today because eventually there will be law suits and they will loose. The act is the act of true democracy! Of course anonymous posts are a way of contributing but you are not free to "bully" when posting anonymously. That is called harassment. Interestingly it is not when you post with your real name. Huzzah

It is also interesting to note that owing to a prosecutor in LA who was fired for whistle blowing it is now established that you can NOT be fired for talking ill of your employer if you go to the press (and presumably a Blog is a form of the press) and represent yourself only as a concerned citizen an not affiliated with the employer. Lets face it, everyone at Enron became unemployed. If someone in the know had vocalized the problems as a citizen perhaps the company would be around today.

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Frank L. Mighetto CCP

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 03/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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