Wednesday, November 03, 2004
US blogger fired by her airline
The dangers of blogging - an employee in the US has been fired by her employer for writing a semi-fictional account on her blog.
This raises some very serious issues: ownership of images, freedom of speech, the line between fact and ficton - and all this is closer to home than we may think. The University is developing policy about blogs, and there is concern that freedom of speech will be curtailed by the University's obvious desire to protect its image. I don't think that there is sufficiently contentious material in this blog to cause problems, but I host this on a University site and so there is more scope for them to interfere, should they wish to. If it were my own site, that might be different - but the Queen of the Sky was not hosted by the airline, so who can tell? As a simple protest, I'll not fly Delta Airlines until this is satisfactorily explained. I'm pleased to see she's taking legal action against them.
The dangers of blogging - an employee in the US has been fired by her employer for writing a semi-fictional account on her blog.
This raises some very serious issues: ownership of images, freedom of speech, the line between fact and ficton - and all this is closer to home than we may think. The University is developing policy about blogs, and there is concern that freedom of speech will be curtailed by the University's obvious desire to protect its image. I don't think that there is sufficiently contentious material in this blog to cause problems, but I host this on a University site and so there is more scope for them to interfere, should they wish to. If it were my own site, that might be different - but the Queen of the Sky was not hosted by the airline, so who can tell? As a simple protest, I'll not fly Delta Airlines until this is satisfactorily explained. I'm pleased to see she's taking legal action against them.
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