[Sigia-l] Corporate and personal blogs are indeed public

[Heather Johnson]

Alexander wrote:

>>Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
>> "To my mind, it's an innocuous post."
>>
>> That pretty much sums it up. "To his mind." Why even bother with this

>> ambiguity? I just don't get this urge to *publicly* comment on one's
job 
>> and employer. What's the point?

>Something about free speech? Oh, never mind; he's just one of the
>first in a line of people who gets fired until either a) we all get
>it, and are more careful about what we say, or b) the corporations
>find out that they need not be so paranoid over a thing just 
>because it is new. It is the same old story.

In her book _Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America_, Barbara
Ehrenreich makes the point that we don't really live in a free society
when we spend so much of our time in a totalitarian system, i.e.,
working for corporations. This incident is just one example that proves
her point.

-Heather