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In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes
neurone333 sends along the cause célèbre of the moment in France: a Web executive working for TF1, Europe's largest TV network, sends an email to his Member of Parliament opposing the government's "three strikes and you're out" proposal, known as Hadopi. His MP forwards the email to the minister backing Hadopi, who forwards it to TF1. The author of the email, Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim, is called into his boss's office and shown an exact copy of his email. Soon he receives a letter saying he is fired for "strong differences with the [company's] strategy" — in a private email sent from a private (gmail) address. French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar. Hit the link below for some background on the ties between TF1 and the Sarkozy government.
The Irish times has an explanation for the incestuous relationship between his government and TF1: "TF1's owner, the construction billionaire Martin Bouygues, is godfather to Mr Sarkozy's youngest son, Louis. Mr. Bouygues suggested to Mr. Sarkozy that he ought to ban advertising on TF1's rival stations in the public sector, which was done in January. Laurent Solly, who was deputy director of Mr. Sarkozy's presidential campaign, is now number two at TF1. Last year, TF1 sacked Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, the station's star presenter for the previous 21 years. Poivre had angered Mr Sarkozy by saying he 'acted like a little boy' at a G8 summit. He was replaced by Laurence Ferrari. Mr. Sarkozy reportedly told Mr. Bouygues he wanted to see the young blond on the news."
The Irish times has an explanation for the incestuous relationship between his government and TF1: "TF1's owner, the construction billionaire Martin Bouygues, is godfather to Mr Sarkozy's youngest son, Louis. Mr. Bouygues suggested to Mr. Sarkozy that he ought to ban advertising on TF1's rival stations in the public sector, which was done in January. Laurent Solly, who was deputy director of Mr. Sarkozy's presidential campaign, is now number two at TF1. Last year, TF1 sacked Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, the station's star presenter for the previous 21 years. Poivre had angered Mr Sarkozy by saying he 'acted like a little boy' at a G8 summit. He was replaced by Laurence Ferrari. Mr. Sarkozy reportedly told Mr. Bouygues he wanted to see the young blond on the news."
The UN UDHC has no force of law. It's a utopian document that no government in the world would implement fully.
That's informative, but are you sure it will still be considered "private e-mail" if it was sent from a company address and signed (explicitly) as a company employee?
Actually , what happens is the following :
He will win the case now , then 5 years later , they will change the law, and countersue to get the money back , plus interest over the 5 years.
It's been done that way before.
Slipping shoelaces ?
Thomas Jefferson also thought that a secular state was a good idea, and the other founding fathers were a type of atheists, yet the USA is now a fundamentalist religious state.. way to tarnish their memory :|
Eh, this is slashdot. Where the majority opinion is that it's just fine for a science publisher to take money to publish unreviewed articles about how great those companies' drugs are.
It's a good place to learn about "lowest common denominator libertarianism". Libertarianism which gives no value at all to tradition; morality; reasonable expectations; estoppel; &c.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
She was, she made an unauthroized copy of a piece of copyright material. Since when is that legal?
Well.. actually it could be familiar to you if you think about how FOX News was entangled with the Bush administration. Although actually in the case of TF1 that's much worse and more direct. Basically FOX News pals around with the GOP and actively push all the pro-republican bullshit they can.
But in France, it's more like TF1 does what the right-wing administration directly tells them to do (i.e. don't talk about this, talk more about that, fire that guy, and so on), and while watching TF1 is a much less surreal experience than watching FOX News, what goes on behind the scenes seems much darker and state propaganda-like.
You just got troll'd!