Comments on: Bloggers need legal protection http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: sonnyvsdan http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-1485 sonnyvsdan Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:54:31 +0000 http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/#comment-1485 Haha, you have touched on something that has burned me in the past. Not employment wise, but friendwise - suddenly, when you get close to your readers, there are things you can no longer blog about or talk about. Not if you are a real human being anyway. In life, there are things you can talk about openly and things you can't. If you are one of those say it like it is people regardless of the situation, then there are definitely people out there who hate you for it, as they should. Being circumspect is a life skill. Moving on to employment - all workplaces have their business to think of and also have certain rights. You do in fact give up a level of freedom of speech when you work for a company. For example in my job (with unfettered access to the medical records of any patient that has ever attended our hospital) I can't talk about the conditions people come in with. I can't let people I know in on the fact that I had to read all about their procedure, what's wrong with their home life and the fact that they pooed themselves for 5 days straight. I can't even talk about it in a way that might identify who they are. When you work for a company and are approached by the media, by rights you should not be releasing information to them without the express permission of the media manager (assuming you have one). Things can't be black and white mate, even though sometimes we wish they could. I wish I could say and do what I like, but one visit to my blog and you might stumble on a new way of doing these things. Cheers for the thoughts, Dan. Haha, you have touched on something that has burned me in the past. Not employment wise, but friendwise – suddenly, when you get close to your readers, there are things you can no longer blog about or talk about. Not if you are a real human being anyway. In life, there are things you can talk about openly and things you can’t. If you are one of those say it like it is people regardless of the situation, then there are definitely people out there who hate you for it, as they should. Being circumspect is a life skill.

Moving on to employment – all workplaces have their business to think of and also have certain rights. You do in fact give up a level of freedom of speech when you work for a company. For example in my job (with unfettered access to the medical records of any patient that has ever attended our hospital) I can’t talk about the conditions people come in with. I can’t let people I know in on the fact that I had to read all about their procedure, what’s wrong with their home life and the fact that they pooed themselves for 5 days straight. I can’t even talk about it in a way that might identify who they are. When you work for a company and are approached by the media, by rights you should not be releasing information to them without the express permission of the media manager (assuming you have one).
Things can’t be black and white mate, even though sometimes we wish they could.
I wish I could say and do what I like, but one visit to my blog and you might stumble on a new way of doing these things. Cheers for the thoughts,
Dan.

]]> By: esvl http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-1484 esvl Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:10:35 +0000 http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/#comment-1484 I think they should be protected to a certain extent. I prefer to stay anonymous as long as I can, not always possible but I guess "friend bloggers" should know who you are but as for employers they have nothing to do with what goes on, on your blog, except of course if they have a reason to take legal action against you. I think they should be protected to a certain extent.
I prefer to stay anonymous as long as I can, not always possible but I guess “friend bloggers” should know who you are but as for employers they have nothing to do with what goes on, on your blog, except of course if they have a reason to take legal action against you.

]]> By: SheBee http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-1483 SheBee Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:31:02 +0000 http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/12/10/bloggers-need-legal-protection/#comment-1483 I'm happy to go with your opinion, here, unless the blogger is really going out of their way to piss off their employers in a damaging light. I think thats where most of this outrage comes from. Some people don't know how to be controversial without throwing sticks and stones at their company... I’m happy to go with your opinion, here, unless the blogger is really going out of their way to piss off their employers in a damaging light. I think thats where most of this outrage comes from.

Some people don’t know how to be controversial without throwing sticks and stones at their company…

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