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[byron mc]

Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career)
February 18, 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chez-pazienza/say-what-you-will-requie_b_87282.html?

Of course he broke the rule from his HR dept.'s handbook...

employee handbook which states that any writing done for a "non-CNN outlet" must be run through the network's standards and practices department.

but HR then made a surprising comment: "It's also, you know, the nature of what you've been writing."

Like anyone who considers him or herself a respectable news professional, whatever my personal opinions were, they were checked at the door when I walked into work.

Fired for _NOT_ being anonymous online as a writer.
If what our DHS commish said last fall privacy and anonymity are no longer the same will become truer then free speech via the Internet is going to cause people to lose their jobs from their corporate staff gigs.

[Junker]

Yup, MSM don't want no truth or even the rumor of truth.

Reminds me...oldtime, big NY newspaper editor...retirement fest...reporter there extolled reporting he truth...

big man said never, he'd be fired if he ever tried to print the truth.

MSM is not about Truth

Never was.

[byron mc]

McALESTER, Okla. — Police detectives seeking the identities of bloggers who criticized McAlester officials on an online message board delivered a subpoena to the site's operator, who says he won't cooperate with investigators.

Two police detectives delivered the subpoena on Aug. 12 to Harold King, who operates the Web site McAlester Watercooler. The subpoena orders King to provide details by Aug. 16 on 35 bloggers posting under pseudonyms on King's site.

“A list of 35 names is a witch hunt,� King told the McAlester News-Capital.

King said he researched posts under those pseudonyms and found one common denominator: All had written critically about District Attorney Jim Miller.

Subpoena seeks to unmask anonymous bloggers
08.14.2008
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20406

www.mccooler.net

[Canadian Mamma]

I used to work for a government sponsored social services group that saves children for their "safety".  I can't can't use any of the buzz words because they have full time employees that do nothing but google those words to find folks on the net and keep on eye on them and if they get derogatory in any way shape or form...... shut them up. Full time snooping and finding and using lawyers threats to shut folks up....how do they sleep at night....prbably congratulate themselves that they are supporting the right solution.....

[iloilo]

What can we do to help you find honest work?
You must hate being where you are.
ff

[Mr. Bill]

Subpoena seeks to unmask anonymous bloggers

Update on this:

McAlester district attorney ordered police inquiry into online comments about him

[Canadian Mamma]

What can we do to help you find honest work?
You must hate being where you are.
ff

Thanks so much for your concern

I used to work are the operative words.  What can I say......I was going to save the world......You know how that can be.....RIght? Bit of a waste of time and money on all that social engineering schooling...Pity really.

[Junker]

Subpoena seeks to unmask anonymous bloggers

Update on this:

McAlester district attorney ordered police inquiry into online comments about him

I'll add a snippet of the link:

McALESTER — District Attorney Jim Miller was so outraged by what people
wrote about him on a local message board that he filed a police complaint.

The ensuing investigation and subpoena targeting 35 anonymous posters
have caused a firestorm stretching far beyond McAlester's city limits.

A journalism professor and First Amendment advocate calls Miller's actions
"the kind of thing you'd expect in a police state.�

Miller counters that free speech has restrictions. The allegations written
about him on a site called the McAlester Watercooler ... are so offensive that
he is the victim of a crime, Miller claims.

Oh my!

[clarence]

Miller counters that free speech has restrictions. The allegations written
about him on a site called the McAlester Watercooler ... are so offensive that
he is the victim of a crime, Miller claims.

can i be the one that tells him in front of a court of law that the truth is a perfect defense?

clarence

[byron mc]

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge forced Google to unmask Port, rejecting Port's claim that blogs "serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting" and shouldn't be regarded as fact.
Google revealed identity of blogger Rosemary Port, who now plans to sue Web site.

In her suit, she'll charge Google "breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity," said her high-powered attorney Salvatore Strazzullo. "I'm ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court," Strazzullo said. "Our Founding Fathers wrote 'The Federalist Papers' under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn't that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?"

"I feel proud to live in a country where you're not persecuted for your opinions," Port said. "That right has to be protected.

August 23rd 2009
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/23/2009-08-23_outted_blogger_rosemary_port_blames_model_liskula_cohen_for_skank_stink.html?page=0

Well it is good to hear an attorney thinking he is defending a citizens right to the 1st amendment. He will only get rich trying.
Blogger.com is a private website not a public park and thus is not the same.



You may also want to visit this thread on TMM if you think First Amendment protections is a right on the Internet:
`Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights
in it it includes a couple of links to check out too.
http://thementalmilitia.com/forums/index.php?topic=18204.0

and these lawmakers wants to lose anonymous posting altogether:
Kentucky, Idaho, New Jersey lawmakers Want to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
http://thementalmilitia.com/forums/index.php?topic=17137.0

Do I have a right to blog anonymously?
Yes. The Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the First Amendment right to speak anonymously: "author is generally free to decide whether or not to disclose his or her true identity.
...an author's decision to remain anonymous, like other decisions concerning omissions or additions to the content of a publication, is an aspect of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment." (McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm)

http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-986.ZO.html  the 1995 SUPREME COURT documents
http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/overview#10

EFF has written a guide to blogging anonymously that may help you,
How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)
http://www.eff.org/wp/blog-safely