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Even if workers write the blog anonymously, an employer may be able to take the position that blogging "is inconsistent with the business mission," said Jonathan A. Segal, an employment attorney in Philadelphia.
Usually the blogger has little protection. "In most states," said Gregg M. Lemley, a St. Louis labor lawyer, "if an employer doesn't like what you're talking about, they can simply terminate you."
And that is happening enough that there is even a word for it -- getting "dooced." Blogger Heather B. Armstrong coined the phrase in 2002, after she was fired from her Web design job for writing about work and colleagues on her blog, Dooce.com.
Although workers have been writing blogs for years, companies have been slow to create policies to cover them. "Most employers as of now do not have blogging policies, just as 10 years ago they didn't have e-mail policies and now they do," Segal said.
E-mail and Internet policies that have been developed were created to deal with improper employee usage during work hours. Very few companies have rules governing employee computer habits outside work.
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Very few companies have rules governing employee computer habits outside work.
Originally posted by sardion2000
What gives any company the right to say what an employee does or does not do in his/her own spare time.
Bloggers Mojtaba Saminejad and Arash Sigarchi are being detained by the Iranian authorities for doing nothing other than exercising their basic freedoms
Originally posted by Nygdan
Bloggers Mojtaba Saminejad and Arash Sigarchi are being detained by the Iranian authorities for doing nothing other than exercising their basic freedoms
People all over the planet are arrested for doing just that. Why consider these two particularly important or worthy of attention? Outside of the pragmatic matter of bloggers self-identifying with them and writting about their plight, ie having a ready made, easily propagated media blitz campaign?