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HP Deletes Negative Corporate Blogger Comments

Posted by Zonk on from the talking-out-of-turn dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "HP has recently been making the rounds promoting their new company blogging efforts. Nora Denzel, HP's senior vice president and general manager of HP's Adaptive Enterprise and Software Global Business Unit has started a podcast and a number of new bloggers including David Gee, the head of worldwide marketing for HP's management software business, have also started company blogs. So imagine my surprise when I tried to legitimately leave a comment critical of HP at David Gee's HP blog and had my comment quickly erased and my HP passport (required to leave comments) revoked. Is it one-sided blogging to only let people say positive things about your company on your blog?" Update: 05/07 04:24 GMT by Z : Indeed, "Update: It would appear that David Gee has changed his mind and has reinstated my comment along with a comment from him saying he would pass the feedback along. A good first step. I've asked for an explanation as to why it was removed and hopefully will hear back soon."

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  1. What was that proverb? by Cytlid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some Japanese thing saying "If you believe everything you read, you shouldn't read."

    I like screwing with people. I like managing a webserver. I'd give someone free hosting for their blog and change all kinds of stuff on them, bofh style.

    Who cares, really? What if I wanted to say wh ILOVESLASHDOT ILOVESLASHDOT ILOVESLASHDOT nd that was on here for example, you don't think they'd edit it, do you?

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    FLR
  2. Slashdot $$$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Is it one-sided blogging to only let people say positive things about your company on your blog?""

    Slashdot is wonderful! OSTG is great! No I'm not being paid to say such things

  3. Re:Why YRO? by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 3, Funny
    You do have the right to know when a collection of postings has been filtered and censored.

    The foresight of the Founding Fathers to add that to the Bill of Rights was truly astounding.

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    Support the First Amendment. Read at -1
  4. Serving only what you want... and Routing? by TerranFury · · Score: 2, Funny

    There have been a number of comments here saying that you are not obligated to host what you don't want to. Makes some sense. But...

    Are you obligated to route stuff you don't want to? If I'm Quest or Verizon or somebody, and my router sees a packet coming in that contains the plaintext "Verizon sucks," am I obligated to route that?

    What if I have routers and I'm the Chinese government?

  5. Re:change of heart? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have said many bad things about HP and -- I regret them all, they have my best interest in mind.. -- I could tell you more. Look at their printers, everything since the 5Si has been complete ly outstanding. In fact I know they would never edit posts.

  6. Re:Taking it on the chin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The parent post is a great example of what happens when you view more porn than you read literature.