{"id":170,"date":"2005-02-11T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:34:53","slug":"before-you-find-yourself-dooced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/before-you-find-yourself-dooced\/","title":{"rendered":"Before you find yourself ‘Dooced’…."},"content":{"rendered":"

This should be a must-read for anyone blogging or thinking about starting a blog….<\/p>\n

Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth Jobs<\/strong><\/a>
\n(Registration is required, but I expect anyone in the know to ALREADY have an account with The Washington Post Anyway)<\/p>\n

\"SoApBoX\"<\/a>This should be a “MUST READ” if you have a blog, journal, personal website, or a message board.<\/p>\n

We have an expression in blogging, “Getting Dooced”. It’s from a very famous case when the author of Dooce.Com<\/a> was fired for her content on her weblog… particularly for badmouthing her place of business and co-workers.<\/p>\n

Now I’ve seen this happen on the web AND in real life. <\/strong>A lot of bloggers feel “safe and anonymous”. They may even make a casual remark that they forget all about, until the WRONG PERSON finds it buried away in your site via a Google search.<\/p>\n

When this happens it’s always the same old song & dance.<\/strong> They feign shock and outrage as their “private thoughts” (which they put on the world wide web, go figure) are supposed to protected by the first amendment…<\/p>\n

And, get this, they feel like THEY’RE the ones who were wronged!<\/p>\n

Newsflash, chuckles: The world doesn’t work that way.<\/strong> Try and see it from your employer’s point of view. They are trying to keep and maintain a corporate image, they have customers on the web… who may stumble upon your remarks and it puts their company in a bad light. It’s about the same as making flyers that say “MY COMPANY SUCKS!<\/em><\/strong>” and passing them out in front of the building.<\/p>\n

You don’t even have to name the company by name.<\/strong> If they know it’s you, and you’re talking about the job you’re working in…. that is MORE than enough to warrant your termination from your place of employment.<\/p>\n

You may think you’re protected under the cover of anonymity, but you’re not<\/strong>. Your domain can be looked up in a WHOIS search. Search long enough in someone’s archives and you can piece together who is the author behind the writings. A large number of times these dopes write their weblogs\/journals on company time, so their site is in their history folder.<\/p>\n

And the First Amendment doesn’t give you the “freedom to say anything you want and be an irresponsible twit”, any more than a drivers license gives you the freedom to drive on a sidewalk and plow pedestrians.
\n
\nJust a word to the wise… <\/strong> don’t write something you don’t want your worst enemy to read. The web is the LAST place you want to put something where you don’t want it found.<\/p>\n

But if you do, don’t expect any sympathy from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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